As EU Leaders discuss the Brexit impasse in Brussels, one of the ways to end the issue is for the UK to revoke Article 50, thus abandoning Brexit altogether. The prospects for such an outcome are very slim and it is certainly not priced into the pound. The UK Government and Parliament's Petitions website has a petition calling for just that. Parliament considers all petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures for a debate. That threshold for this petition created by Margaret Anne Georgiadou has been surpassed and hit 1,000,000 signatures at the time of writing. After hitting one million, the flow of signatures continues. The text of the petition: Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU. The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is 'the will of the people'. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU. A People's Vote may not happen - so vote now. In addition, organized labor, represented by the TUC, and business, represented by the CBI, sent an urgent letter to Theresa May calling her to avoid a hard Brexit. GBP/USD trades at the lows, around 1.3100.<doc-sep>The prime minister hopes to bring the agreement she has negotiated with the EU back to the Commons for the third time but MPs want other options to be considered as well - and on Monday backed a series of votes to find out the kind of Brexit deal they would support.<doc-sep>Update: Over three million people have now signed the petition. A petition calling for Theresa May to revoke Article 50 – the rule which means the UK will leave the European Union on March 29 – and remain in the EU, has gained a staggering number of signatures. Titled 'Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU', it's essentially calling for Parliament to cancel Brexit. Backed by the likes of physicist Brian Cox, Huge Grant, Jennifer Saunders and singer Annie Lennox, it's growing staggeringly quickly. The Petitions Committee (a cross-party group of MPs appointed by House of Commons) tweeted that there were nearly 2,000 signatures a minute. Another tweet then confirmed the rate of signing was 'the highest the site has ever had to deal.' This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. I’ve signed this petition to revoke A50 and deal with the consequences afterwards - referendum, election, whatever. I have no idea whether these things do any good but after May’s astonishingly irresponsible speech this evening I’ll give anything a go. https://t.co/1XuQW3vuve — Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) March 20, 2019 At the time of writing, 2.9 million people had signed up. Petitions need 100,000 signatures to be debated in Parliament – this has long passed that threshold. The Prime Minister, however, has ruled out stopping the Brexit process, saying: 'I do not believe that we should be revoking Article 50.' 'If you look back to what happened in the referendum, we saw the biggest democratic exercise in our history,' she told reporters in Brussels on Thursday. Started by former college lecturer Margaret Anne Georgiadou, it first went live on 20 February. But it was pretty much ignored until Wednesday, after Theresa May’s statement from Downing Street in which she announced that she would not ask the EU for a long extension of the negotiating period. She (somewhat controversially) blamed MPs for failing to stick to the result of the 2016 vote and told the public: 'I am on your side.' After this, 'Revoke Article 50' started to trend on Twitter. 'It's almost like a dam bursting, because we've been held back in a sense – it's almost like last chance saloon now,' Georgiadou told the BBC. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. A lot of people have been asking about numbers. Between 80,000 and 100,000 people have been simultaneously viewing the petition to revoke article 50. Nearly 2,000 signatures are being completed every minute. — Petitions Committee (@HoCpetitions) March 21, 2019 According to Wired , yesterday morning around 180,000 signatures were being added to the petition every hour (up from 60,000 on Wednesday night).A House of Commons spokesperson said the site crashed on Thursday morning because of 'a large and sustained load on the system'. The Committee tweeted that validation emails were taking longer than usual to get through to people's inboxes. 'The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is ‘the will of the people’. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now for remaining in the EU,' writes Georgiadou on the website. 'A People’s Vote may not happen – so vote now.' This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. May’s cliff-edge ultimatum succeeds in sending hundreds of thousands to #RevokeA50 petition, as the scale of her catastrophe becomes impossible to hide. There are NO good Brexits. #StopBrexit https://t.co/NZ07MnmzlC — Tom Brake (@thomasbrake) March 21, 2019 The petition's heat map shows support for revoking Article 50 is concentrated in London and constituencies around Cambridge, Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, Oxford and Edinburgh. Will nearly three million signatures change anything? Not likely. Petitions on the parliament website rarely lead to a change in the law. First you need to get 100,000 signature to be debated, which this one has, but the petitions committee can also reject any petition if it believes the government can't do anything about the issue anyway. But, says the BBC's political reporter Brian Wheeler, what petitions can do is 'put an issue on the political radar - and that is what appears to have happened with the petition to revoke Article 50.' Getty Images 'It was previously something of a taboo subject at Westminster. Even the most ardent anti-Brexiteers know it would be political suicide for any prime minister to overturn a referendum result without going back to the people. But some Remainer MPs are now calling on social media for the government to do just that.' On Thursday night, after eight hours of discussion, EU leaders offered to delay Brexit until 22 May if MPs approve May's deal next week. If they do not approve it, the deadline is 12 April, at which point the UK must set out its next steps or leave without a deal. May said MPs had a 'clear choice'. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. 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An online parliament petition asking the government to remain in the EU and revoke Article 50 -- the clause of the EU treaty under which Britain is leaving -- has been taken down after receiving 1 million signatures in a day. The website crashed Thursday after receiving an overwhelming number of visitors. The petition received more than a quarter of a million signatures shortly after it was put online Wednesday. British parliament's petition committee said on Twitter the petition saw "the highest the site has ever had to deal with." "The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is 'the will of the people.' We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU. A People's Vote may not happen — so vote now," petition creator Margaret Anne Georgiadou said. "Revoke Article 50" was trending on Twitter in the U.K. and worldwide on Thursday, with users also sharing links to the petition. The British Parliament considers all petitions for debate that get more than 100,000 signatures. Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to persuade European Union leaders to delay Brexit by up to three months, just eight days before Britain is scheduled to leave the bloc. May will meet the 27 national other EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday, a day after she requested an extension until June 30. European Council President Donald Tusk says a short delay may be possible, but only if Britain's Parliament approves May's divorce deal with the bloc before the scheduled March 29 departure date. U.K. lawmakers have already rejected the deal twice. May says they face a "final choice" between her deal, a no-deal departure that could hammer the economy, and cancelling Brexit. But May angered many legislators with a televised speech Wednesday blaming Parliament for the Brexit impasse.