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Originally Posted by Chris
More or less.
And 48-52 would have resulted in us remaining in the EU just as emphatically. It was a referendum with a binary question, no quorum and no supermajority required. As we have been over many, many times.
Incidentally, the reason the team is allowing Brexit discussion here is because for the most part it is presently relevant to Boris Johnson’s “new broom” approach to government and Brexit.
We aren’t about to allow the thread to collapse into endless pointless repetition of all the old, old arguments about the legitimacy of the referendum, the mandate afforded by the result or whether “nobody voted for X”.
So let’s try and keep things on track, please.  |
If you want to "keep things on track", you and your moderator colleagues need to challenge posts where false claims are made. For example, Brexit was not the "biggest democratic mandate this country has ever given a PM". If you keep people honest then the members will not have to.
On the subject of the said Johnson Government, I am disappointed but not surprised to see what people are prepared to accept and, more, enthuse over in order to get Brexit over the line. The UK used to be a place where most people were moderate and considerate of their fellow citizens. No more, Cameron's tragic decision has turned this country into an inward looking and bitterly divided society. We are only just seeing the "rewards" of this tragedy.
We have a PM who has appointed a Rasputin-esque figure as his chief advisor who is relishing his power at No.10. Dismissing people for Thought Crimes no less. Johnson's arrogance in his ironic suspension of parliamentary democracy and the latest gem: Gove refusing to guarantee that the government will abide by any law that may be passed by Parliament.
You have the naive saying that after we Leave, the country will come together. No chance, this is just the beginning of Brexit. The only consolation is that this whole grubby fiasco will condemn the Tories to political oblivion. As the older voters shuffle off, they will be replaced by a generation who the Tories have spectacularly betrayed. They will not forget or forgive ...