Brexit
In, out, in, out, and shake it all about....
In, out, in, out, and shake it all about....
So the Brexit referendum was back in 2016 and since then, from my non politically motivated or informed view, all that I’ve seen in the subsequent 2 and a half years is politicians trying to work out an exit deal mixed amongst political posturing when they should have been addressing the one key question:
“Why on earth are we going through with this given that the winning majority was so small”?
It’s also worth mentioning that my not really understanding the finer points of our political set up probably reflects a good percentage of the electorate.
The whole referendum circus is yet another example of politicians being out of touch with the general public.
The biggest and best prize of an example of the powers that be being so removed from the electorate though goes to who ever advised David Cameron at the time of the referendum to nail his colours so firmly to the Remain flag.
Mr Cameron may possibly be quite a nice chap in private but he could also be the smarmy faced Eton educated elitist that a lot of people believe him to be.
It was a major own goal to leave him so exposed to those (and there were many of them) who saw the vote as a chance to go against him, his politics and all he and his Conservative party stands for.
As prime minister he needed to state his opinion and views on the referendum but once this was done he should’ve taken a back seat to allow the vote to take place without the influence of political agendas.
So, the answer?
Surely a 2nd referendum with a pre determined majority required for a result to stand. And if that referendum doesn’t give a clear result then we go again….and again until a realistic majority is reached. And that result could be Remain or Leave for me, I just think it’s important to get a representative result.
Personally, I voted Leave with what I would call simplistic but well founded reasoning:
I decided that the best way to help what I saw as the UKs biggest issues, the over ran NHS, the housing issue, the poor state of our transport network and the need for better and more schools was to control the size of our population. We were promised control of our borders if we left the EU. That, along with other false promises, seems to have been a bit of a myth, so I’d go for Remain at a 2nd referendum. Simple as that. And maybe I’m wrong in my choice. As I say, I’m no informed political expert.
But where I’m certain that I’m right is saying that surely such monumental action can’t be taken on a referendum result which had such a small winning majority?
So the Brexit referendum was back in 2016 and since then, from my non politically motivated or informed view, all that I’ve seen in the subsequent 2 and a half years is politicians trying to work out an exit deal mixed amongst political posturing when they should have been addressing the one key question:
“Why on earth are we going through with this given that the winning majority was so small”?
It’s also worth mentioning that my not really understanding the finer points of our political set up probably reflects a good percentage of the electorate.
The whole referendum circus is yet another example of politicians being out of touch with the general public.
The biggest and best prize of an example of the powers that be being so removed from the electorate though goes to who ever advised David Cameron at the time of the referendum to nail his colours so firmly to the Remain flag.
Mr Cameron may possibly be quite a nice chap in private but he could also be the smarmy faced Eton educated elitist that a lot of people believe him to be.
It was a major own goal to leave him so exposed to those (and there were many of them) who saw the vote as a chance to go against him, his politics and all he and his Conservative party stands for.
As prime minister he needed to state his opinion and views on the referendum but once this was done he should’ve taken a back seat to allow the vote to take place without the influence of political agendas.
So, the answer?
Surely a 2nd referendum with a pre determined majority required for a result to stand. And if that referendum doesn’t give a clear result then we go again….and again until a realistic majority is reached. And that result could be Remain or Leave for me, I just think it’s important to get a representative result.
Personally, I voted Leave with what I would call simplistic but well founded reasoning:
I decided that the best way to help what I saw as the UKs biggest issues, the over ran NHS, the housing issue, the poor state of our transport network and the need for better and more schools was to control the size of our population. We were promised control of our borders if we left the EU. That, along with other false promises, seems to have been a bit of a myth, so I’d go for Remain at a 2nd referendum. Simple as that. And maybe I’m wrong in my choice. As I say, I’m no informed political expert.
But where I’m certain that I’m right is saying that surely such monumental action can’t be taken on a referendum result which had such a small winning majority?
