Yes, yes. Often people who follow me for my stuff on Social Justice scholarship & activism are then disappointed to find out that I'm not a fan of religion or that I think Brexit is a terrible idea. We are all made of many ideas. Try to remain calm. Rolling of eyes is fine.
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You have no right to do that. Abide by the election result.
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No, democracy did not stop after you got the result you wanted. We still have the right to discuss whether there is justification for a referendum. You could support that if you're confident Brexit is still the will of the people?
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You can't throw away a democratic decision though. as much as you can debate its merits.
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No, we'd have to change it with another democratic decision. And we'd need to argue out whether there was enough new information or evidence of changed minds to justify this. I am undecided on this and would like to see arguments on both sides.
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So basically you didn't like the result of the first referendum and you want to ignore the first result and would like to have another referendum...
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That would be an uncharitable reading. If remain had won but then the EU changed rules or there was reason to think more people, we could talk about whether it was worth asking the people what they wanted again too.
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I'm open to arguments against a new referendum. Areo published one. I'd need to see strong evidence that minds had changed or that there was enough new info to warrant asking again to support it precisely because I voted the other way & am vulnerable to confirmation bias.
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Give me one example in a western democracy where a referendum went through the same scrutiny after a decision was made... democratically.
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