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Originally Posted by Damien
As for the 'everyone knows what they voted for' I don't think it's that simple. People voted for Brexit but there are a huge number of questions as to what happens next that cannot be answered by 'leave means leave'. One of them is what do we do about the huge number of regulatory bodies of which we're a part? Stay a member? Do our own version? Find another one?
The latest one is do we stay a member of Euratom as the government says no: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...aty-allies-eu/ This is a treaty that allows joint research, smooth transport of nuclear materials and parts and so on.
This was never mentioned in the referendum. Even the campaign manager of Leave is joining those in the nuclear industry and scientists in thinking this is stupid.
https://twitter.com/odysseanproject/...54037956718593
And this the problem with the 'Brexit means Brexit' line and the 'we know what we voted for' response to any concerns about any approach in how we leave. We're deciding the future of our membership in a pan-European nuclear agreement based on a 52%-48% answer to a question which had little to do with how we manage nuclear research. So at the moment we're pulling out of a working agreement against the advice of almost everyone connected to the industry because Brexit means Brexit. |
You could say that about voting for anything. When we vote for a govt. we don't know what we're going to get do we? We don't know whether they'll honour their promises, perform admirably or mess up the entire economy and we don't get a chance to change it for 5 years. In 2010 lots of people voted thinking there'd be no student fee increases and look what happened to that. When Brexit is complete I have no doubt that whatever mutually important agreements, understandings or whatever which are required in areas such as this with the EU will be reinstated in one form or another.