Poll: 56.8% would vote to remain inside the EU. Only 34.9% would vote to leave and 8.3% said they would not vote at all. In a referendum that would be 61.9% against 38.1%.
Brexit is not democratic. It is a monstrous abuse of democracy.
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Brexit is not democratic. It is a monstrous abuse of democracy.
@guyverhofstadt
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/25…
In a real democracy there would have been a super-majority provision to avoid a situation in which the policy quickly loses majority support. But in the UK the super-majority provisions were argued to be unnecessary because the referendum was advisory.
And having dodged the need for a super-majority provision the government then treated the result as mandatory while using a legal loophole which meant that an advisory referendum could not be annulled due to electoral law-breaking by the Leave campaigns.
In no real democracy would the process which led to Article 50 notification have satisfied its constitutional requirements as required by Article 50. Only in a country where the Tories could drive a bulldozer through an unwritten constitution grounded on trust could this happen.
What the Tories did in the run-up to Article 50 notification was the kind of slippery exploitation of legal loopholes to be expected of a Mafia lawyer. But governments must be better than Mafia lawyers. They must respect the intention and not merely the letter of the law.
