Re: Brexit (New).
 

It wasn’t clear at all. It’s absolute nonsense, and historical revisionism, to suggest otherwise. Our relationship with Europe and the single market was unclear. Ardent Brexiteers have in the past used Norway as a potential future model.

Re: Brexit (New).
 

Not sure if you can count never having an MP elected in a by-election or General Election in the Labour heartlands as "did very well"...

In fact, they’ve only had 2 MPs elected in by-elections (when Carswell and Reckless resigned), and only 1 in a General Election (Carswell, who has since re-joined the Conservatives).

No UKIP candidate, who wasn’t already the sitting MP previously for another party, has ever won a seat in the House of Commons (no matter how many times (7) NF tried).

Re: Brexit (New).
 

That said - the surge in support for UKIP prior to 2015 cannot be denied. In 2015 - The Tories got 11.3m votes and 329 seats, while Ukip got one seat for 3.9m votes. The voting system in the UK is well and truly knackered, but then so will Democracy itself, if Brexit does not occur.

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UKIP did enough to force a referendum, The BNP & UKIP which you would describe as far right outdid LibDems in many constituencies and in local elections did even better.

To discount this as an MP’s numbers game would be very foolish. Parliament and the establishment ignored this threat and feeling and what did we get? Brexit.

To ignore this shows you are as out if touch in your ivory tower as most of Westminster.

It’s Hilarious.

Westminster and the Establishment facilitated this fiasco by ignoring large swathes of the electorate that had valid concerns, concerns that were preyed upon by UKIP and the far right.

And now after the result how do they intend to adress those concerns? By ignoring the electorate. Stupid is as stupid does.

Re: Brexit (New).
 

If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy. David Davis

Re: Brexit (New).
 

It hasn’t changed it’s mind.

A parliament that ignores the will of the people should lose it’s mandate as the Executive.

The Queen should dissolve Parliament if they don’t deliver Brexit.

Re: Brexit (New).
 

That’s quite desperate. A general election is the solution to test public opinion.

Re: Brexit (New).
 

you cant say that lots have and you do know we like in a parliamentry sovereign democracy right

Re: Brexit (New).
 

That went down last well last time as that is why Theresa May called a election last time so that she could get a stronger mandate from the public to endorse her governments Brexit policy but alas that did not turn out as the pollsters and the media had imagined did it.

Re: Brexit (New).
 

It was tongue in cheek.

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It would help if the result of the first vote was enacted first for that to actually mean anything.

Regardless - No evidence exists to say people in their many millions have changed their mind. Every leave voter I know, has not changed their mind and I know quite a few, this in contrast to Remain voters who I do know, who would now vote leave.

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I am sorry but you cannot tell someone else "they can't say that" and then you say "lots have", you have no way of knowing. It's a complete fallacy to say, "lots have", when you cannot possibly know.

Re: Brexit (New).
 

There’s no basis to implement a referendum result nobody wants. Be that May’s deal, or no deal.

If anyone in the leave campaign genuinely thought public opinion hadn’t changed they’d be at the front of the queue saying it’s time for a second referendum. A referendum to end the meddling, based on the evidence available.

It’s telling that there’s no appetite for such a referendum.

Re: Brexit (New).
 

It tells no such thing - we don't keep having the same votes because one side won't accept they lost - leave won the democratic process in 2016. So we leave.

Re: Brexit (New).
 

i accept i didn't explain myself properly there is people that changed mind in both directions no one can know for certain what difference in the result would be now i was trying to say to Pierre no one can say that for certain that's all i wasn't clear enough

Re: Brexit (New).
 

Except Parliament will not vote for it.

The only way we leave the European Union and it's if Leave wins a second referendum. It's the political reality and there is no way around it.