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Originally Posted by Mr K
If nothing has changed why the paranoia about a vote confirming the deal (if there is one) ? Or if no deal is acceptable? Different types of deals or no deal could mean very different things.
The paranoia about another vote is because you know what the outcome would be. Not even a referendum is forever. If the people still want to leave, when they know exactly what is on offer, then fair enough. At the moment they don't know, or have any say on our type of exit. At the moment its a jump down a big black hole with Capt. Idiot at the helm.
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The objection to another vote is its delegitimising effect on the use of referendums as a means of settling constitutional questions in our otherwise parliamentary system.
Nobody here is fooled by the attempt to frame it as a “confirmatory vote” - it is what the continuity remain campaign has planned for it to be ever since they lost the vote in 2016: an attempt to rerun and overturn the original result. The giveaway is the way “no Brexit” is invariably, casually suggested as the alternative to “accept the deal”.
For those of us who genuinely pursued Brexit as a means of restoring democratic control of all areas of our national life, the democratic conduct of referendums is genuinely important. In this case conducting the referendum democratically means implementing the result. If we don’t like the result - I.e. us being outside the EU, not us being told for 3 years how awful it would be if we were - then, and only then, is it democratic to hold another vote. At this stage nothing, absolutely nothing, has actually changed.