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Yet the main article is from The Guardian...

As a Tory and a Brexit voter, let me reassure you that I (and my Brexit voting friends) are not closeted fascists. The idea is quite offensive, actually. :)

This is literally the most hyperbolic thing I've read in a while.

Are you a writer for The Independent by any chance?

(Seriously, you're saying that this will be the last ever democratic election in the UK?)

Nobody is silencing anyone.

The Lib Dems campaigned for an EU referendum [1], and now want to reverse it because the result wasn't what they wanted.

The SNP campaigned for Scotland to leave the EU (as it would have done if leaving the UK) in their independence referendum, and now behave as if leaving the EU is unthinkable.

Both are playing politics. The ground has shifted, and so it's helpful for the government to get a new mandate.

[1] http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/images/Clegg...

Most Scots are against a second referendum, and against independence [1]. May is just giving them what they want.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_indep...