EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Can I ask why you think this? What happens if there is no such appeasement? Pitchforks?

Presumably discontent with the status quo continues to fester until it bubbles over again. I guess I'm glass half full but I can't see things getting better by telling a whole bunch of people to get back in their box. I do think leave / remain EU was the wrong question to ask, but I can't go back in time.

Because this is 1 million in less than 24 hours, with no referendum buildup or infrastructure.

I can't get excited about that. Personally. It's space year 2019 and I can petition vote from my sofa to a question I don't need to even think about in five minutes. If anything, we should want the numbers to be 10X bigger.

It is also demonstrates the utter absence of a groundswell viral petition for no-deal or TMWA.

I'm, again, a bit glass half full in that. The leave 'side' is a spectrum and you can't pin down what they want, apart from 'change', so it's hard to petitionise it. And there's the result of the referendum - why would someone who believes that leave is a good idea waste their time (and, more importantly, credibility) trying to viralise petition? For remain it's zero-risk, for leave there's huge potential for an own goal.