Should There be a Revote on Brexit?

[Zinneke]

Not for another 10 years. Its time electorates took responsibility for their actions.

[Zinneke]

No, they should do the most soft Brexit possible. Cancelling the referendum result altogether would be wrong.

Hard Brexit is what was sold by the Leave camp, with the exception of a few idealists like Daniel Hannan and careerists like Johnson. It should be a hard Brexit. And the EU will deserve the consequences too as its as much a failure of our system as a general culture of ignorance about the EU institutions in the UK.

[Zinneke]

Thing is, the idea that any given issue should only be voted on once has never been how direct democracy works in practice.

We held dozens of referendums on "limiting mass immigration" until one eventually passed. Should the right-wing nationalists have just shut up when they lost the first one in the 1970s? or when they lost the Schengen vote in 2005? or the free movement vote in 2009?

And it was still absolutely scandalous that the immigration referendum wasn't followed. We (EU) would have finally followed Martin Sonneborn's advice and built a wall around Switzerland, to end their special arrangement and free riding off of our security while spitting on our values once and for all. If only our political class didn't have Swiss bank accounts.