Re: Bercow bollox to Brexit show.
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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I don't remember ever voting to join the common market. If there was a referendum then maybe I was too young (a bit like remoaner kids being too young to vote on Brexit). Back then though, we didn't have the luxury of demanding a second vote if we disagreed with the result.
No-one demanded a second vote because the majority was bigger than the laughable 52-48 of the Brexit one. And the benefits of the Common Market were soon obvious to all and sundry.
Further, so big a constitutional re-alignment should have had to have been 55-45 or 60-40 or whatever. Loyalists in the Six Counties of Ireland are already making this point now for when, in the not-too-distant future, the people there have to vote on Ireland being (re) united. And Brexit is a much bigger deal than that!
The bar should have been set much higher than a straight simple majority.