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T i m wrote:
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
if you read the Supreme Court's judgement you will see that,
constitutionally, it was only advisory, but the Government decided to
honour the result
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
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