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Originally Posted by Damien
The head of No is proposing another referendum over the terms of exit in the event of them winning the referendum: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeeh...o-referendums/
The idea being that it would prevent the No vote being a risk as you'll always be able to vote again in a few months whereas Yes would be final. Another way of looking at it is that they don't have the power not the obligation to actually hold another referendum and may take that No vote as final.
Plus it's bloody stupid and just prolongs the amount of time spent dealing with this issue. Like the Scottish Referendum we should make a decision then get on with it. We can't spend the years obsessing over Europe. |
We've been doing that ever since we found out we hadn't just signed up for EEC but had been dragged into the EU behind our backs. I'm not sure the Scottish referendum has been laid to rest either.
There's no easy or risk free way to proceed on this and the stakes are high. I wish I had some certainty as to the best way forward but I don't. It'd be a good sign if the EU had shown itself to be anything other than intransigent over reform but here we are, decades later, still waiting for reform of stuff like the CAP. As with issues like the Greece crisis, the EU's MO seems to be to equivocate and procrastinate on important matters as often and for as long as possible. They're like a giant version of TFL! Can an organisation like this be ever be reformed in an orderly manner? I have my doubts and I think that's what a lot of people who'll vote to leave will cite as their reasoning.