Is the referendum result being ignored?
May. 23rd, 2019 11:15 amI 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.