Re:No-deal Brexit opponents defeat government
by nailer on Thursday September 05, 2019 @02:39AM
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Well we lost by something like 1.5 million people. Overturning the referendum result because of campaign finance law seems somewhat excessive.
Re:No-deal Brexit opponents defeat government
by NeedMoreTea on Thursday September 05, 2019 @07:46AM
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Perhaps so, but I think it would be better to have had those parameters established beforehand, and where the limits of what was considered fair under law were. Maybe people could consider it settled even if they didn't like the result
Anything would be better than how we did do it, really. :)
At least elections have the veneer of election law behind them. Referendum nations have a similar veneer behind referenda - to decide whether it was fairly arrived at, etc. Switzerland not long threw out a result because the electorate had been given some sort of misleading information in the campaign.