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originally posted by: Forensick
From the moment that result happened, everyone against the democratic vote has pulled every trick in the book to try and overrule it.
I want to make this point right here, the vote was leave or remain, it was not, ‘leave with a deal' or stay, it was leave or stay, the vote was leave and therefore, anything else is undemocratic.
I note that the BBC will not call out this hypocrisy and they withhold comments from any ‘story’ that would show them how the Bias Broadcasting Corporation rolls, so much for independent reporting!
originally posted by: lakenheath24
You say that but i cant help but wonded what this argument would look like if remain won and the leavers tried to block the result?
And nobody knows for a fact what a no deal would do. My guess would be a short term chaos.followed quickly by the eu doing deals. I mean germany is on the brink of recession already and the UK loves themselves a bmw.
a reply to: OtherSideOfTheCoin
originally posted by: Dannijca
It wasn't a Vote it was a referendum.
It's different...
a reply to: Forensick
originally posted by: lakenheath24
True...but one will never know if that would have happened since Leave won. However, in the same article David Cameron said "we have referendums...not neverendums".
a reply to: ScepticScot
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
Both sides have a lot to answer for, I am fed up of one side blaming the other the truth is this is what happens when you use direct democracy to direct a parliamentary democracy it doesn't work. Lets stop pretending its "undemocratic" to block no-deal because no-deal will be economically devastating or this country.
originally posted by: twfau
Is obsessively aiming for the results of an advisory vote in which the voters were lied to on most of the major issues democratic? I would say it's anti-democratic personally, others disagree. I'd also say that in a representative democracy we give parliament and its elective officials the sovereignty to make policy, so a referendum conflicts with that style of democracy and causes chaos.
With it being so unclear over how exactly the UK can leave the EU, you'd think it would be more consistent with our current democratic system to have an election giving people the chance to vote for whatever party they believe best represents their wishes.
Nigel Farage specifically stated, prior to the referendum, that in event of a narrow remain victory that they would continue to campaign to leave. Apparently remain doing the same is undemocratic...