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Question: Should Britons be able to have a revote on Brexit?
#1
Briton: Yes
 
#2
Briton: No
 
#3
Non-Briton: Yes
 
#4
Non-Briton: No
 
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Total Voters: 161

Author Topic: Should There be a Revote on Brexit?  (Read 7979 times)
GoTfan
GoTfan21
Junior Chimp
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« on: June 29, 2018, 12:25:15 AM »

No. Sorry, you can march on the Parliament waving EU flags all you want, doesn't change the result. People only started taking it seriously after they lost, when they should've been doing it during the f***ing campaign.

You've had the referendum, so stop crying about it and try to work out a decent deal with them.
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GoTfan
GoTfan21
Junior Chimp
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Australia


« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2019, 04:49:31 AM »

I think we should take the Lord Buckethead approach. That is; there should be a referendum on whether there should be another referendum.
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GoTfan
GoTfan21
Junior Chimp
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Australia


« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2019, 06:27:52 AM »

So if I understand the primary objection herein to a revote, it's that the democratic will of the voters must be observed. Therefore, if said voters want a revote to express their democratic will again, that's....bad? Huh

Sounds more like Brexiteer fanboys are afraid that their not good idea is now largely seen as not good, and if put to voters they will likewise pronounce it, not good.

Only a relatively small minority are hard-up decided against doing a revote. Voters are allowed to have buyer's remorse. It's why incumbents lose re-election. (Word is there are currently quite a few self-facepalming voters on this side of the Atlantic.)

And in this case, remember  Brexit originally won with less than 52% of the vote! It's not like that razor-thin margin grants it an absolutely insoluble mandate for life.

Yes, the point about finality and not making the referendum a periodic recurrence is valid, but that's no reason to close up shop and ignore the will of the voters having serious second thoughts, any more than it would've been to ignore the original referendum results.

Not a Brexit  fan myself, but how do you justify ignoring the results of a referendum?
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