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Soph0571

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5. Referendum is bollocks

Reply to The King of Prussia (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 07:15 PM

Jan 2019

It is to binary to be meaningful and generally in referendum we rarely see a progressive choice - other than Ireland recently. Direct democracy tends to ask the easy question for the easy choice for people who do not engage in the wider political process on an ongoing basis.

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Soooooo what happens now? [View all] Soph0571 Jan 2019 OP

Confused here, surely the vast majority of your fellow Brits WANT back IN to the EU , right? Eliot Rosewater Jan 2019 #1

There's still a hardcore of fanatical leavers T_i_B Jan 2019 #2

You would think so, but no... Soph0571 Jan 2019 #3

... An ex-Empire, pining, perhaps, for the fjords (or is that just Scotland?)... Ghost Dog Jan 2019 #7

Certainly not The King of Prussia Jan 2019 #4

Referendum is bollocks Soph0571 Jan 2019 #5

You probably have to be British to fully appreciate this The King of Prussia Jan 2019 #6

UK at an Impasse Ghost Dog Jan 2019 #8

Welcome to the Westminster apocalypse. Have you thought about theocracy instead? muriel_volestrangler Jan 2019 #9

As the farmer in a remote area told the traveller who was seeking directions to the nearest town... LeftishBrit Jan 2019 #10

General question about what happens now that May survived ZeroSomeBrains Jan 2019 #11

No, no-one knows (not just among us - no-one in the world knows) muriel_volestrangler Jan 2019 #12

The "red line" sticking point adopted vociferously by May and aped by Corbyn restricts options. Denzil_DC Jan 2019 #13

Vanity is clearly exacerbating this mess T_i_B Jan 2019 #14