peoples vote is the only way to get a consensus on this!
There was a peoples vote.
That's what got us into this mess in the first place.
It is.
It should never, ever have been held.
But conversely, another one is the only real chance of getting out of the mess caused by the first one.
The ref vote was about an idea with no detail and it was supported enthusiastically by most of post industrial N and Mid England.
These people have been shafted for over a generation.
The UK can have a people’s vote but unless it deals with the despair behind the leave vote the chaos will continue
A popular vote won’t put the genie back in the bottle
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It won't but it at least offers a way out of the mess.
What else does?
The genie should never have been let out of the bottle.
The UK system is inherently unsuited to referendums, especially a referendum between the status quo and unicorns in the sky.
To be honest, the UK electoral system is a total shambles. First past the post and single seat constituencies are an abomination. The UK political system is scarily similar to the US system in that first past the post leads to polarisation. It dismisses nuance and dismisses a large swathe of public opinion by offering only a binary choice.
What has happened in the Tory party is very similar to what has happened in the US Republican party. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. That would likely not have happened in a PR system as the lunatics would have been in a different party.
For all its faults, the Irish electoral system is far superior.
The main advantage of the FPTP system is to keep the likes of the BNP out of the commons but when you have Tories then happily going into power with the DUP and all their baggage it makes you wonder.
The first past the post system has let the anti-Europe crazies set the agenda in the Tory party for the last 30 years.
With PR, they'd have been marginalised.
The UK does not have a written constitution. Parliament has always been where things are decided. Therefore any referendums are not constitutional, they are only advisory. The introduction of referendums created a parallel system for decision making which is in conflict with parliament. One of the few people to actually recognise this and warn against it was Margaret Thatcher.
Ireland has a written constitution. Our referendums are always constitutional, we've never held one that wasn't constitutional. The questions and competing outcomes are
always defined. We know how to hold referendums.
Britain held an advisory, non-constitutional referendum on a question where one outcome was completely undefined and pie in the sky.
Why? Because David Cameron appeased the crazies in order to get a majority for himself in parliament. He gambled in the most irresponsible fashion with the futures of the people of Britain.
I don't rate May as Prime Minister. But hapless and incompetent as she may be, she's nowhere near Cameron on the list of worst Prime Ministers of all time.
There's a special dunce's corner in history reserved for Cameron.