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T i m

On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:12:09 +0100, wrote:

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One point he made - and the interested should really go listen for
themselves - was that the nature of the political process meant
that the decision (here) was at least felt to be made with sufficient
popular support, thus giving it natural democratic legitimacy;

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This is the crux of it for me for the whole Brexit process and could
so easily been resolved by:

1) Leaving the referendum to be the advisory poll it should only have
ever been and / or

2) Requiring any decision to require a supermajority providing a
'clear will of the people' as you reflect above (50%+1 is not
'sufficient popular support' and hence doesn't (hasn't) gained
'natural democratic legitimacy, IMHO).

Ironically the latter was the very requirement Firage insisted would
be needed for him to consider a Remain win.

Cheers, T i m