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Old 20-12-2018, 17:52   #5376
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Re: Brexit

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Originally Posted by Angua View Post
The sheer lack of a clear majority of the electorate positively voting leave based on a flawed referendum, seems a strange reason to respect the result.
If you don’t vote, you choose not to be heard. So please stop trying to ‘hear’ those who abstained from the vote.

The referendum was not flawed. Every eligible person had a vote and was able to do so without hindrance. There are a great many countries where they would laugh in your face for suggesting any vote held in the U.K. in the last century might be described as “flawed”.

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I know the leave voters will respond with but 52% of those who voted chose leave. This is still less than 4% more than voted remain, far too tight to be a wholehearted endorsement of Brexit.
I sincerely doubt you would be making this argument if the result had been the exact reverse.
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