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Sadiq Khan Leads The Anti-Democracy March.
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Judging by the looks of them, I wish they would leave the UK and go and live in the EU, if they like it so much.
Judging by the looks of them, I wish they would leave the UK and go and live in the EU, if they like it so much.
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The situation is straightforw ard: The UK electorate voted to leave the EU. However close the result was (and the majority was 1.269m votes on a turnout of 72%) is immaterial. It was a substantial number. The government who called the referendum (and who framed the question and spent vast sums of public money trying to persuade the electorate to vote to...
23:16 Sat 20th Oct 2018
"It is incumbent on the current government to honour the pledge of its predecessor."
Actually, no it's not, and indeed one of the cornerstones of any democracy is that the government of today cannot be bound by the government of yesterday. This is why laws can always be repealed, or amended, or superseded; it is why new laws can be brought in, why treaties can be withdrawn from.
And it's why a second referendum is absolutely not undemocratic. How can it be? You've just asked the people again. The UK of 2016 has gone -- sometimes literally, given that over the last two years, some voters in 2016 have died, and others that couldn't vote then now can.
The real anti-democracy, then, is those that wish to pretend that the 2016 decision is absolutely final, and absolutely must be respected come what may. Nonsense.
Actually, no it's not, and indeed one of the cornerstones of any democracy is that the government of today cannot be bound by the government of yesterday. This is why laws can always be repealed, or amended, or superseded; it is why new laws can be brought in, why treaties can be withdrawn from.
And it's why a second referendum is absolutely not undemocratic. How can it be? You've just asked the people again. The UK of 2016 has gone -- sometimes literally, given that over the last two years, some voters in 2016 have died, and others that couldn't vote then now can.
The real anti-democracy, then, is those that wish to pretend that the 2016 decision is absolutely final, and absolutely must be respected come what may. Nonsense.
Had the situation been reversed, meanwhile, supporters of leaving the EU would have always been free to continue campaigning for what they believed in... and, who knows, some day they might even have found themselves in a position to implement their decision. But protests, and campaigns, and debates, would have never ceased. Quite right too.
More well thought out comments from remainers.
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