Dougie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

Why haven’t we heard more arguments like this from opposition MPs. It’s a simple but very powerful argument. Democracy is not stuck in 2016, it moves on and evolves as people and their views evolve. Otherwise UK ceases to be a democracy.

UK ceases to be a democracy if a vote is not implented.

But this was Common Knowledge from day 1..

I know, but not to everyone. Rachel, here, has articulated it in a way that seems to be more effective than any politician so far.

So what happens if the result remains the same

Then that result will stand. It’s like agreeing to have an operation. You give your consent. But in doing some tests the doctor finds there are previously unknown risks. He is obliged to inform you. You may still go ahead, with informed consent. Or you may withdraw consent.

That argument doesn't even hold water. Those world cup teams that won actually got to lift the cup... They didn't start the tournement again when they were unhappy with the result. Same rules with a general election, the decision was upheld until the term was complete.

In sport, replays are often used to resolve deadlocks. In politics, a referendum is different from a general election in that it has only one outcome, whereas an election has 650 individual outcomes (for each MP). These individual elections have been rerun before, immediately.

Let’s just keep on having endless referendum until one party get the result they want? Madness.

What about having one referendum where each side provides accurate information on what they propose. That has yet to happen.