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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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This is your interpretation which you are entitled to. However, the flawed referendum has to be assessed on what was promised and not what all the possible, mathematical permutations may be.
You wish to Leave so you are happy to abandon the principles at stake here. For many, the actions should follow what was discussed & promised. Not what was not discussed and not promised. To do so would devalue the already devalued currency of trust in politicians.
I understand your "Brexit at all costs" approach to this but for the majority of the country, this is not the desired path ..