Can I ask why if the British people were lied to on the campaign for the referendum you don’t want another vote?

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I’ve been curious about this question a good while and it often pops up in conversation in my house. I live in Ireland and in this country when we have a referendum we have the referendum commission to monitor it. It’s role is to post through several media types unbiased information about the choice presented to the voter. Every person in the country who is registered to vote receives this information. We also monitor the radio and tv coverage to ensure each side gets equal time to campaign for the result they want.

Which is why when I look at what happened in the British referendum I am amazed at how the information was presented to you.

It’s been acknowledged that you were lied to in the campaign. And yet now I hear your politicians talk of respecting the vote of the people when the people were given such little respect by them.

Why not a second referendum considering the first was influenced by false information. In Ireland it would have been challenged through the courts and likely to have been deemed necessary to redo. I know as a Republic we hold referenda very often so are much more experienced but I am still amazed at how the voters were treated.

For many it’s simply an intrenched position that has no relation to fact and cannot be influenced by actualities.

Too true. It's sad and shocking that within 3 months of a potentially catastrophic no deal Brexit, people just shut their ears and come out with nonsensical soundbites. The leave campaign was certainly effective about producing those and they have become ingrained even though they have been disproven many times over. So many people just stopped listening in June 2016.

Just read the thread about traffic in Kent post-Brexit and the number of people that can't get their heads around the fact that no-deal will mean big traffic delays that will unavoidably affect everyday life. It is shocking how many people I have come across that think no deal means things stay exactly as they are but we aren't in the EU.

I don't want a second referendum. I want the politicians to do the job they're bloody well paid for, admit that brexit is a load of shite and cancel the whole bloody thing. A second referendum is their cowardly way of passing the responsibility to someone else. Time for the grown ups to step in before somebody gets hurt.

I completely agree with this. Of course on one hand it's political suicide; but on the other, anyone who did it would probably be treated pretty kindly (or even as a hero) by history. Which is not how history will view May, Gove, Davis, B Johnson et al if we continue as we are at the moment.

{ It is shocking how many people I have come across that think no deal means things stay exactly as they are but we aren't in the EU}

The 'truth' of 'no deal' is that it is a LOSS of hundreds of 'deals'. Basically going backwards very fast.

{Time for the grown ups to step in before somebody gets hurt.}

The EU have done their best but ultimately the kindergarden in Westminster has to get it together at some point.