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When you vote to join the EU, you know what the trade deal and various other treaties will be before you vote. You are provided with the options of keeping thin
by boomboomsubban 6y ago
When you vote to join the EU, you know what the trade deal and various other treaties will be before you vote. You are provided with the options of keeping things as they are or accepting EU laws and treaties.
Voting for Brexit provided none of that information, which is why it was wrong. It was a vote between keeping things as they were, or dunno we'll figure something out. The vote should have been whether they should negotiate a potential Brexit deal and then hold another vote to decide whether they leave.
- gorgoiler 6y agoThere is a strong moral argument behind your idea. In practice the commitment of the EU to The Union precluded any countenance of a member leaving. The punitive nature of current negotiations shows that much is true and, to be fair, it’s not as if the other parties involved are any less entrenched, ideologically. It would be like asking a vegetarian to prepare you a roast turkey Christmas dinner while telling them you’ve yet to decide if you’ll be staying for lunch, or not.
- aembleton 6y agoThe UK voted to join the eec, which then morphed into the eu with various treaties. By the time of the Lisbon treaty, the UK was promised a referendum. That promise was then broken, probably because France, the Netherlands and Ireland all had referendums and all voted against the eu constitution which then became the Lisbon treaty. The prime minister was rightly worried that the UK would vote against it. Ireland got a referendum on the Lisbon treaty, and so it passed. France and the Netherlands didn't get a referendum on that and I expect there is some resentment in those countries still because of it.