Second Referendum etc.
Leavers keep quoting the 17.5M who voted leave, this represents only 37%of the total electorate. I would also remind them of the 16.2M who voted remain, the 13M who didn't even vote and the 2M 18-24 year olds who were denied the right to vote due to electoral registration changes. Bearing that in mind, along with the confusion between advisory and binding referendums and the accepted untruths that (yes) both sides engaged in, I'm going to don my hart hat and set out what I would like to see.
- a second binding referendum asking to choose between remain and whatever compromise deal the Westminster parties come up with. Remember, no deal has been rejected by Parliament.
- a bar of 50.1% of the TOTAL electorate to support such a major national change such as leaving the EU. Such a result in a binding referendum would dispose of all ambiguity. there is precedence for this. The 1979 vote on the setting up of Scottish and Welsh Assemblies set a bar at 40% of the electorate voting for it, in Scotland the yes vote won but failed to meet the 40% of the total electorate mark and the idea was dropped. Other European democracies do this already.
- If the UK was an equal union of nations as it was originally supposed to be, then all the nations involved should have some sort of veto. Smaller nations than Scotland have the power of veto in the EU. I would remind folks that the DUP are a minority party in NI but appear to have a power of veto over TMs deal.
There you go, get your teeth into that but keep it constructive please, Im tired of all the name calling, Ive been guilty of that too but it does no-one any good.