But I DO want another referendum

[Hairyhat]

AIBU? According to Nigel Farage, I am. Nick Clegg, I'm not. Please can we just have another vote to see?

As a small island with a cold damp climate we trade ideas eg: services and skills rather than red wine or cars. Makes perfect sense, I'm rather proud of that.

Not everyone who voted leave, voted that way because of immigration or something slapped on the side of a bus.
Some of us genuinely believe we would be better off out of the EU than in, for many reasons.
I didn't want Tory government, can we have repeated elections every 6 months until Labour win because thats what I want, rather than what was voted for?

As a country we voted OUT, so thats what we're getting. You can't please everybody, but to back track now would possibly cause more damage than to stay as is and see what happens.

We should at least have a referendum on the deal offered by the EU.

We didn't join the EU in 1973.

Back then, we joined the EEC.

The EU, and closer political union, came later, and was felt to be major 'bait and switch'.

There are plenty of people who voted in the 1970s to remain in EEC who voted to leave the EU. Because they're fine with trading bloc (and the free movement of goods/services/people) within it, but nit the rest of EU. Immigration isn't the whole picture by any means.

We voted. We voted leave (sadly).
What's done is done.

No thanks, it’s not best of three

I've been thinking lately and can't understand the absolute anti another vote.

I don't mean to decide if we Brexit or not (as such!). But there wasn't a clear mandate about what Brexit would look like. Once we have a clear mandate about what will and won't be happening after the 'divorce' surely we can make more of an informed choice and decide if it works for us as a country or not?

And if the government are absolutely convinced they have got us the best deal and Brexit is the will of the people - why not allow the vote and it'll go ahead as they predict?

Once we have a clear mandate about what will and won't be happening after the 'divorce' surely we can make more of an informed choice and decide if it works for us as a country or not? That was never ever an option. You can't decide what the end result will be without going through the process... just as in a real divorce. That's cart before the horse.

What was always known is that Brexit would be a process. That's one of the reasons the NOBODY could tell the electorate what would happen NEITHER SIDE knew, they still don't.

But all of that doesn't actually help does it? Whilst all that navel gazing, what iffery continues people, politicians, businesses are not concentrating on what is important... looking for the new opportunities, identifying opportunities.

Thankfully some are!

You are being VVVVVVVVV U!
Do you have any idea how much those bastard elections cost? To voters it’s a tiny pencil cross in a box, but it’s a massive operation with 1000s of people working to make sure they run smoothly - id much rather the money was spent on something needed!

Do you have any idea how much those bastard elections cost?

Do you have any idea what the Brexit negotiations will cost? What the subsequent loss of trade will cost the economy? How much a hamper of marmite, PG Tips and gin costs - gifts intended to "help Mr Barnier to fully grasp the powerful commercial position Britain occupies globally” ?