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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
If the people who didn't vote wanted to stay in the EU, then they should have voted. You have no basis to believe that all those who didn't vote were remainers anyway.
In any case, Brexit is good for the country. The EU is suffocating us and taking away our ability to shape the direction of travel for the UK. We have asked the people and they have answered. Now we need to get on with delivery.
As far as the unions are concerned, you are missing the elephant in the room. That is that only a proportion, often a small proportion, of employees who are also members of a trade union. So a company of 1,000 employees and only 100 trade union members need only 40 votes to strike. Looks a bit different when put like that, doesn't it?
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I am not claiming that all those that did not vote were Remainers so please don't say I did.
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We have asked the people and they have answered
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Not quite, a minority of the people "answered"
As to elephants in the room, I cannot see any.
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Originally Posted by Ramrod
Erm, no. The majority of those who voted, voted to leave. You can call it a minority but in that case those who voted to remain are even more of a minority. 
I take issue with your statement that those who voted to remain should have their wishes taken into account. They shouldn't. For the simple reason that their wish was to remain, which was the issue that they (you) lost over. Why the hell should the winners of this referendum allow the losers to dictate any terms since those are likely to be contrary to the wishes of the winning side?! |
You need to understand that this is not roulette where winner takes all. This vote decided we leave the EU but the terms on which we leave should be decided by HMG who will consider the interests of the nation and population as a whole and not just a small minority of it.
You will have to come to terms with this as this process plays out. If not, you will be very disappointed ..