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Originally Posted by ianch99

You misunderstand. When i said "underwrite", I was not referring to the legal aspect. Rather, I was talking about the mandate that the vote delivered. The vote was based on a campaign where Leave only promised a positive outcome. The Leavers did not detail or articulate that if you voted Leave there was a significant chance that we would leave the EU with No Deal and that you, personally and the country as a whole, would be worse off as measured by a variety of metrics.

To suggest that the vote delivered a democratic mandate for No Deal, with various negative scenarios, would be disingenuous.<SNIP>

Did you really mean "disingenuous" when you consider the definition of that word?

All this nonsense about "No Deal" not being on the ballot paper is merely a contrivance to support an undemocratic argument to defeat the Referendum.

A law can be passed in Parliament by a majority of 1 vote - that would be around 0.2% margin. Nobody would argue that the margin was so close that there would have to be a rerun.

Likewise the Referendum. In this case the leave margin was 4%. Given the guvmin's commitment to deliver the Referendum result, this margin should not be treated differently from a vote in Parliament.

Also you've concentrated on what Leave said/promised - a positive outcome. But Remain promised the exact opposite. Those voting Leave can't be said to have been unaware of the perils being claimed were we to Leave. The words "Remain" and "Leave" are very clear, especially when considered against the respective campaigns.

I do wish that the Remainers in this thread to a properly balanced view of this and not contrive arguments for remaining.