Saturday 30 December 2017

There Should Never Have Been A Referendum

There should never have been a referendum. What if it had gone the other way? Would that have bound Parliament? Well, there you are, then. The case for Brexit is not that there was a referendum (so what?), but that it is right in itself. As a comment on an earlier post puts it: 

Nobody cares about Brexit apart from a few total fanatics like Adonis on one side and Farage on the other. Everybody else is sick to death of hearing about the whole sodding thing. As you say, next to nobody voted at the Election based on this issue. Normal people don't care about it, never did, never will. 

The General Election result bears that out. Unless anyone seriously suggests that there is 82 per cent support for leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union? But, again, so what? The case for that withdrawal is simply that it is right.

Key parts of the Labour manifesto depended on it, although no part of the Conservative programme did so, despite the commitment to it in itself. The party of big business, the City, and the Remain heartlands will always be the party of big business, the City, and the Remain heartlands.

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