2.94 million signatories. Government can "consider" the petition and then just ignore it, if it so desires. It will be interesting to see what Bercow does in terms of MV3 and whether the petition is effective in any way.
Reminds me of the end of LOTR3..."we're going, were on our way, hang on a minute, yes we are going" 30 minutes later. Only in this case It's more like 3 years.