Re:Iberia claims it is part of a department store to avoid B...
by Silhouette on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:19PM
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The 52% voted for something that in reality doesn't meet the expectations of those people.
It seems to me that a big part of the current political stalemate is that many people want to tell us what the 52% or the 48% did or didn't vote for, but almost invariably it's just their opinion/projection with no particular evidentiary basis. There have been relatively few decent surveys from just before or since the referendum, and even those we do have available don't support a lot of the inflammatory rhetoric and stereotypes about who voted either way or why.
"A referendum result either is democratic or it is irreversible, but it cannot both. Any democracy should be able to change its mind, at any time. Just as no parliament can bind another, no electorate can bind another."
This is true as a matter of law under our constitution, but of course politically the situation isn't as simple as that. Running another referendum would be expensive and time-consuming, and unless there was going to be an overwhelming change to the opposite view (for which there is little expectation on current evidence) it's not clear that it would actually resolve anything, whether the result was again a slight majority for leave or reversed to a slight majority for remain.
It seems to me that a big part of the current political stalemate is that many people want to tell us what the 52% or the 48% did or didn't vote for, but almost invariably it's just their opinion/projection with no particular evidentiary basis. There have been relatively few decent surveys from just before or since the referendum, and even those we do have available don't support a lot of the inflammatory rhetoric and stereotypes about who voted either way or why.
"A referendum result either is democratic or it is irreversible, but it cannot both. Any democracy should be able to change its mind, at any time. Just as no parliament can bind another, no electorate can bind another."
This is true as a matter of law under our constitution, but of course politically the situation isn't as simple as that. Running another referendum would be expensive and time-consuming, and unless there was going to be an overwhelming change to the opposite view (for which there is little expectation on current evidence) it's not clear that it would actually resolve anything, whether the result was again a slight majority for leave or reversed to a slight majority for remain.