Especially as key information wasnโt made available to your staff โ such as where would the company be moving to?
Well, these are the same percentages as for the #EUreferendum, and the same information deficit.
In the referendum, only 37% of registered voters supported #Brexit and key information wasnโt made available โ such as what did โLeaveโ entail, what would be the destination?
It meant that most of the electorate, 63%, didnโt give their support for #Brexit โ they either voted for Remain or didnโt vote.
โช Even in a political party, such as the @Conservatives or UKIP, just 37% of their members voting to change their constitution would not be sufficient.
โช Even in your local golf club, just 37% of their members would not be sufficient to change their constitution.
โช Even in a #tradeunion, by Act of Parliament, just 37% of their members voting for a #strike would not be sufficient for the strike to go ahead.
โช Even in #Scotlandโs 1979 #referendum on devolution, by Act of Parliament, just 37% of the electorate voting for the change would not be sufficient.
The bottom line? #Brexit did not have sufficient support to have gone ahead.
.@UKLabour leader, @Keir_Starmer - wrongly, in my view - has emphatically stated that he won't go "banging on" about #Brexit.
There was so much wrong with the #EUreferendum, that had it been a legally binding vote, instead of just โadvisoryโ, the courts could and would have annulled the result as compromised and unsafe.
The problems with the #Brexit โwinโ are so numerous, so serious, and so undemocratic, that the country should have a new democratic opportunity to reconsider our departure from the #EU.
In the following tweets are just SOME of the reasons why:
โช ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐๐ of the five territories required to vote in the #EUreferendum โ Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar โ voted for Remain.
Going ahead with #Brexit, with the support of a mere 37% of the electorate and with half the nations of the UK voting against it, was sheer, reckless, madness.
There are NO benefits to #Brexit; none whatsoever. Only severe downsides, that are hurting Britain now and will increasingly hurt us in the years ahead.
Their Cummings-style slogan promising to โMake Brexit Workโ is shockingly disingenuous and unfitting for Labour, a party that should instead be championing the truth.
โ Proof that voting for Leave was a vote for the unknownโฆ
Hereโs a question for you, I wrote in my report of February 2016: โ๐ช๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ ๐น๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ?โ
No, me neither.
But thatโs what those campaigning for Britain to leave the #EU were expecting voters to do โ vote to end our membership of the EU without knowing what weโd have instead.
The problem LEAVERS had is that they simply didnโt know, and for sure they couldnโt agree.
As a result, two rival, irreconcilable โLeaveโ campaigns were launched in the run-up to the referendum:
#UKIPโs leader, Nigel Farage, supported one (Leave.EU) and @UKIPโs then only MP, Douglas Carswell, supported the other (#VoteLeave).
โ The #EUreferendum was undemocratic. Many people directly affected were denied a vote.
Citizens living in the UK from over 70 nations could vote in the EU referendum, but most citizens living here from the rest of the #EU could not.
โก Including Britain, 55 countries across the world are members of the #Commonwealth, and all citizens from those countries resident with โleave-to-remainโ in the UK were granted a vote the #EUreferendum.
They included citizens living here from Australia, Canada, Ghana, India..
โข Just two #EU countries are members of the #Commonwealth, #Malta and #Cyprus, and citizens from those countries resident in the UK were able to vote in the #EUreferendum.