The referendum was advisory.
Other countries have referenda and then plan sensible courses of action about best way to move forward taking vote as a guide, sometimes going back for another vote once people have more info.
Yes we live in a democracy, thank God. But this wasn’t the same as a general election vote and be done with it. We don’t get another vote in 4 years if we don’t like the outcome. This is a vote with impacts that will be felt for generations, largely by people who weren’t able to vote. You don’t want a deal with our closest trading partners? Are you so rich that you don’t think you’ll feel any consequences of our economy completely tanking? Or are you so poor that you feel it couldn’t make a difference? It’s not just the humous and olive eating middle classes that will feel this. This country is being hollowed out and all it’s safety nets being undermined by a governing party that doesn’t believe in society.
The voting public who did vote were lied to. There was fraud.
So given all that I think people who voted to remain - almost as many millions as leave by the way - have an absolute right to insist that the Govt handles it better, even if that means leave it didn’t have to be like this, teetering on a cliff edge and threatening businesses and lives. They also have a right to exercise their freedom of speech to say we’d rather not be leaving the EU thanks. And MPs have a duty to their constituents to make sure that a deal is done in the national interest.
Being part of the EU has been great for Britain. It’s meant money for regenerative projects all over Wales, clean beaches everywhere, environmental protections and working standards that are the envy of the world (unless you are a disaster capitalist) and it has meant we have grown up in an age of unprecedented peace and stability. The world has changed, and much as it needs to change again (and get to grips with the incompatibility of relentless economic growth models with climate change) we were part of something bigger. The way Brexit is currently being handled is actively diminishing our status on the global stage to the point that it will be laughable to think we’ll have any influence and leverage left.
Fine, let’s leave if you want, but what I don’t understand is why leavers are so persistently angry - what are worried about? You’re getting what you want one way or the other. Why aren’t you more concerned about what’s coming after Brexit? Is your job at risk of automation in the next decade? Because post Brexit I wouldn’t have any faith in workers rights legislation to help you retrain and move into a new job.
It’s not people who wanted to remain in the EU who are ducking it up. What’s your vision? Where are you headed? What’s better about it? Or is just out means out? Why is it all so childish?
Have you heard what Brexiteer MPs have to say about manufacturing in a post Brexit Britain... “...we’ll just have to run it down...like we ran down coal...” hope it works out well for you in Brexit land.
I hope we can fix the mess this country is in.