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Brexit could be reversed – here’s how

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7 pointsmariuz10 comments

Sorry to bring down the level of conversation but this is copium. It won't be reversed, at least not for the next few political cycles. We would require politicians putting the countries needs above their own and that is just not the situation we live in.

Not only do you have the Tories living in a fantasy land, but Keir is also out there promising to make Brexit work, as recently as last month[0].

0: https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-labour-keir-starmer-post-...

It is good how everyone can call the same number in different ways, I would call the hypothetical 60% votes for re-join as a "slight majority", the FT calls it a "strong approval".

The biggest issue for me has always been the demographics. Older people voted for Brexit, old people tend to die more than you people. I did a back of a fag packet calculation when this was voted for and noted then that the majority would have died by the time Brexit actually got implemented.

So to get to the point, has anyone changed their mind, or is this just brexiteers dying?

Interesting possibility, to this you add that (likely) young people that became eligible for voting tend to be more pro-EU and anyway go against the status quo, and the 10 years after vote could be easily reversed.

But for getting 60% or more there is anyway the need of lots of people changing their mind.

I still believe (maybe wrongly) that part of the reasons why Brexit succeeded was because the voters were not properly told what the advantages and disadvantages could have been, so a certain number of people voted for Brexit without really-really being convinced.

Voter's were never even told what Brexit we were going to have, let alone being educated on the pros and cons.

The debate was over a hard or soft Brexit. Even the hard brexit was softer than what we got.

Leave won with about 52% of the vote, that's what I'd call a slight majority.

Yep, that is exactly the good thing, anyone can use his/her own metrics, though technically 50% + 1 vote is the majority, and democracy works that way, 52% is virtually indistinguishable from 48% as I see it.

Does democracy work that way?

Bush jr didn't get a majority and in blighty in the last election the Tories 'won' with 43% of the vote, which netted them 56% of the seats.

America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy

https://archive.is/FoJ22

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