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Post by see2 on Oct 27, 2023 9:17:36 GMT
It was Farage who said a 52-48 vote for remain would be "unfinished business". Why was that statement acceptable? Acceptable to who - Farage was nothing to do with the Government, or Parliament for that matter. Perhaps more acceptable, at that time, to the losers. |
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Post by see2 on Oct 27, 2023 9:25:52 GMT
The electorate in this country is to easily persuaded and can change opinions dramatically depending on varying circumstances. I have no doubt that many of the lies during the referendum were accepted as true. I equally believe that many who voted were too busy getting on with their lives to do any research on what was involved. For me, I prefer the representative democracy with all its fault to the whims of the ill informed. So do the UK a favour and ban referendum.
The population of Switzerland is less than 9M. Would we need a referendum to ban referendums? Good question, but maybe just an intelligent government that is elected on the promise to rejoin the EU would do. After all, the reason the UK got involved in Europe in the first place was because the UK was doing so badly economically and could see the Likes of the French economy overtaking the UK's for the first time in 200 years. If a similar situation arises in the future, who knows. |
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Post by see2 on Oct 27, 2023 9:35:19 GMT
Morayloon, Anti EU is not xenophobia, the EU is a badly run political union whose leaders, the Commission, are not elected. The UK is a sovereign country which voted to leave that badly run political union. Scotland is a province which voted to stay in the UK. Get over it Anglophobe. It's time to hold a referendum on the abolition of devolution. The Commission is not the leader, their proposals have to go before two bodies both of which can repeatedly bounce it back to the Commission for changes or until it gets lost in the long grass, before any proposal gets the final OK from the EU Parliament. Members of the Commission are from the governments of EU member states, and are vetted by the EU for acceptance. |
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