General Discussion
French and Dutch voters were given a say on the Lisbon Constitution, but after both electorates rejected the proposed constitution it was rewritten as treaty, and in a way that bypassed any legal requirement for referendums in member states. https://euobserver.com/institutional/25052 You say us plebs are way too thick to have a vote on such complex issues, but after witnessing the shitshow ...
I can't speak for Farage, but I know I had to wait 40 years to vote again on the issue. Let's enact the Leave result and then after a suitable period (40 years?), we can evaluate if it has been a success.
I would remind you that the '75 referendum occured when we had been in the EEC for only two years, nothing much had happened by then, I don't think people thought membership had affected them much at all. Of course the EEC then morphed into the EU with myriad game-changing treaties, such as Maastricht and Lisbon, being introduced. Not once were we given a chance to vote on these treaties, Gordon ...
And we'd likely to be told to eff off, wait 40 years like we had to after 1975, but because Remain lost the government is bending over backwards to try to bend the result to placate them. But we do have a Remain government and a Remain parliament so it's no wonder the decision made by the people is being trashed.
I see the breakaway group of TIGs have this morning become an official political party called Change UK. I wonder in which constituency Soubry thinks she has any chance at all of winning a seat in parliament.
If Remain had won that would have been it, we would stay in the EU. Leavers would have no doubt continued arguing the case to quit the EU, but parliament certainly would not have spent three years trying to accommodate the losing side. Do you seriously think we would have only half-remained because it was a close result?
So because of something Farage said you are using that as an excuse for trying to overturn the result? Campaign all you like to re-enter the EU, but if democracy is to be served the referendum result has to be enacted.
We have had a three year war of attrition to try to overturn Brexit. W hy don't you just admit that Remoaners had no intention of accepting the referendum result from the moment it was announced? Do you think if Remain had won that we would have argued for three years to try to accommodate the losing side? Like hell we would. Future elections are going to be an eye-opener for the political ...
Here are a just few I found instantly on Google. Whilst some of these actions are cloaked as procedural challenges, the real reason for the action is abundantly clear; stop Brexit at all costs. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/782086/gina-miller-brexit-court-parliament-sovereignty https://www.law.ac.uk/blog/gina-miller-my-battle-against-brexit/ ...
The facts are that Remoaners inside and outside of parliament have pulled every trick in the book to overturn the referendum result. How many court actions have there been to stop Brexit? There's been so many that I have lost count. Some people even went to the Irish courts to try to get the Irish government to intervene to stop Brexit. We've also had the nauseating spectacle of British ...