Should There be a Revote on Brexit?

[Izzyeviel]

Absolutely not. The British people voted to leave the EU. Sorry cosmopolitans, you lost and you don't get to have the nation vote on the same issue over and over again until they finally give you the answer you want.

This was the second referendum on the subject. We had to have another because Leavers demanded another ref after losing the first one by 9 million votes & 30%.

[Izzyeviel]

My own preference is that parliament -- the current one, and all later ones -- to simply ignore the referendum. It was just a campaign gimmick (a lot like Trump's wall) that no government need acknowledge. If it comes to it, jurists can discover or invent a Latin legal jargon to the effect that "Parliament refuses to smell a noisome odour."

Realistically, though, I agree with most everyone else here: there will be no second referendum. The thing is done.

(Though part of me is really looking forward to the UK getting its economy smashed and becoming even more peripheral to world affairs until is comes crawling back to the EU begging for readmission with Schengen and the Euro.)

When this is the attitude of remain supporters you can’t exactly blame people for voting to leave.

Leave voters have assassinated an MP, plotted to kill another, publicly harass and threaten other MP's , cheer at the prospect of people losing their jobs and have no consideration for the negative effects Brexit will have on various industries. When that's the attitude of leave voters, can you really blame people for wanting to rejoin the EU?

[Izzyeviel]

Here comes the whataboutery. Clearly I hit a nerve.

Leave voters have assassinated an MP, plotted to kill another, publicly harass and threaten other MP's

Ah yes, the actions of one deranged individual is clearly equivalent to opinions repeated ad nauseam on this forum.

cheer at the prospect of people losing their jobs and have no consideration for the negative effects Brexit will have on various industries.

Not believing project fear is not in the same universe as "cheer at the prospect of people losing their jobs".  Besides if this was actually a concern for you then you would care just as much about people saying they "want the UK economy smashed".  But you don't, why?

If Remainers wanted to smash the UK economy they'd vote Leave.

Project fear is turning out to be project fact and they don't care.

And it wasn't some lone individual. It was someone who knew full well what they were doing who had been influenced by the language of Brexit supporters who paint remainers as traitors, saboteurs, and every other name under the sun. Other Brexiteers have been jailed for attempting to assassinate other remain MP's, and just look at the abuse dealt out by them to Anna Soubry over the past month. Journalists need police protection from these guys.

Even Brexiteers like Owen Jones get threatened. Why? Because they're the wrong sort of brexiteer. They're not racist and happen to be gay.

700,000 Remainers marched peacefully throughout London. Several thousand brexiteers trashed Trafalgar square and attacked police horses.

But sure, Remainers are the more awful people who must be stopped.