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Originally Posted by Chris
The referendum simply gave HMG a mandate to take us out of the EU. The idea that it mandated any specific way of doing that is just remainer wishful thinking.
None of the Leave campaigns represented either government or official opposition. The official status of one leave campaign was a legal device designed to regulate funding and access to TV airtime. It did not designate their campaign material as a kind of quasi-manifesto.
You may feel the whole thing was appallingly sloppy and unfair but it was legal, and the result - a simple, naked mandate to leave the EU - was valid.
I’m afraid that arguments based on the exact nature of the mandate granted in 2016, great as they may sound, are not valid.
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By the same logic it mandated no specific way to leave the EU. Leave with no deal being the default is the leave voters wishful thinking.
When you can show me explicitly where on the ballot paper it said leave the EU with a completely clean break THEN you have a point.
You voted the options on the ballot paper.
what you were told, and what were on the ballot paper were two differing offerings.