May. 23rd, 2019

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I wrote the following on a discussion thread in a local Facebook group, in response to a suggestion that the referendum result is being  ignored:


The problem with Brexit - one of the many problems - is  that there are many different versions of it, none of which has a  majority in either Parliament or the country. And if you look at some of  the versions of it, some - like "no deal" - are incredibly damaging and  were not on the table at all during the referendum (Vote Leave said we'd  negotiate a deal before triggering Article 50 - something which is  impossible!), while others, like the "Norway" option (previously  promoted by Farage and Johnson, but now denounced as tantamount to  treason), are completely pointless, because they mean still following EU  laws but no longer having a say over them. The referendum result has  not been ignored - we have spent 3 years digging our country into a  hole. Other countries are looking at us in disbelief. The Liberal  Democrats favour stopping this national embarrassment via democratic  means. If Brexiters are so sure that the people still want it, then they  should not be afraid of giving the people the final say. If the  referendum question was on an actual, solid Brexit plan rather than a  vague "all-things-to-all-people" set of promises like the first  referendum, then I would accept the result no matter which way it went.

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