[Sephiroth]

If Remain had won the first Referendum in a 52/48 ratio and the Leave camp bitched for a second Referendum, the Remainers would pretend to be affronted etc.

Now this is where it is really unfair, not just unfair. In the Remain vote scenario, the perfidious French, the perfidious Irish and the perfidious Spanish wouldn't have unleashed that perfidy. So Remainers wouldn't have the opportunity of being swayed to vote Leave in a second Referendum. So a second Referendum simply wouldn't happen.

In the present situation, the Remainers are using every device to force another Referendum to overturn a democratic decision taken in 2016. It's hypocritical and perverse.

It hasn't helped that the guvmin has been so bad at negotiating let alone pissing away their majority in 2017. They should have started out on an assumption of no deal and let the EU sweat it out and panic while we made our preparations.

The only case for a 2nd Referendum, if there is a case at all, would be based on the guvmin's incompetence by making a Brexit BRINO.

If there is to be a 2nd Referendum, the ballot paper should not offer the Remain option because that decision has been taken and enshrined in law.