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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
They did their worst, not their best.
Adversarial is fine in all respects except where it comes to the application of a decision taken in the direct democracy element of our system.
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That explanation is one that suits Remainers who wish for the Referendum result to be ignored. The representatives have a duty to deliver direct democracy element.
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It’s not an "explanation" - it’s a fact.
Britain is a Representative Democracy, not a Direct (delegate) Democracy - just repeating the same falsehood repeatedly doesn’t make it true.
It states so in Hansard.
https://www.parliament.uk/about/livi...ns/reformacts/
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The Reform Acts and representative democracy
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Margate Thatcher stressed this in her 1984 speech to the Carlton Club.
https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105799
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And even if we look at the kind of representative democracy which we practice in Britain today, we realise how long has been the road from Runnymede.
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Long before democracy was valued, long before we had this form of representative government, long before universal suffrage, we prided ourselves on being a free people.
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We would have called herself a free people long before we had today's form of representative democracy.
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You may prefer Direct Democracy, but that’s now how it’s done in the U.K.
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Last edited by Hugh; 03-06-2019 at 21:08.
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