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Having another referendum now we know what the actual options for leaving are seems democratic to me. But you won't get people, including politicians, that want

• Silhouette 8y ago
  Having another referendum now we know what the actual options for leaving are seems democratic to me. I am wary of the assumption that we really do know what the actual options are for leaving now. In particular, there is at least one other avenue that has not been seriously explored so far even though it's probably the one that had most potential to achieve (or, being more blunt, any realistic possibility of achieving) some of the major changes that attracted Leave votes in the first place while still having significantly closer relations with our neighbours than just crashing out. It's also the one that many of the Brexiteers among our elected representatives have been openly advocating for some time, contrary to the various stereotypes about how the don't have any alternatives to propose. There is a lot of political rhetoric at the moment, particularly the whole "this deal or no deal" dichotomy from the EU, but we surely wouldn't expect them to say anything else in the current context, would we? However, it doesn't take much reading between the lines to predict that if we do end up leaving with no big formal deal in March then lots of small alternative arrangements will be made very quickly and both sides will talk further about making more comprehensive and permanent arrangements down the line.