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It seems weird to initiate something as radical as a total political realignment of your country on the basis of a 2% win margin, particularly when you don't ac
by matthewdgreen 7y ago
It seems weird to initiate something as radical as a total political realignment of your country on the basis of a 2% win margin, particularly when you don't actually have a concrete plan for how you're doing it (and when no majority of the pro-Brexit voters seem to support the actual plans that have been proposed.) The total failure of your politicians to complete this project after several free and democratic parliamentary elections seems to me to be a reflection of that fact, rather than some kind of weasel.
>If Remain had won by a similar small margin, do you think we would have been using those words to acknowledge some moral failure of our victory?
Not really -- preserving your existing trade relationships doesn't seem like the kind of thing that requires an overwhelming majority.
- mellosouls 7y agoI'm not sure how to respond without repeating myself. Those are nullification criteria to be established before the vote, not after it doesn't go your way. The decision was made, it just needs to be delivered. I agree it has taken far too long to do so.
- matthewdgreen 7y agoNobody established any nullification criteria. They just said “do you want to leave the EU”. Parliament then negotiated an exit deal. The problem seems to be that the many of the same voters who said “yes” are unable to get their representatives to agree on accepting that deal.