Brexit Bungle

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(12-12-2018, 08:35 PM)bfine32 Wrote: You can get that feeling all you want; however, it is not true

Citizens didn't drag their heels they voted; Parliament is the one dragging their heels. We are 1.5 years into the process and they cannot "figure it out". 

Sure: What would be your stance if the US voted to legalize Marijuana in a popular vote and the old white men in Congress didn't like it; so they drug their heels, tried to come up with ways it's a bad idea, and 2 years later after they've done nothing to act on the vote by the citizenry stated: "We're going to vote again"?

Take the marijuana example and put in abortion.


Do people not vote all the time to try and put people in to office to change the laws on legal abortion?

The difference being of course there was not a national referendum on it but rather election after election of politicians running for or against it for years now.

(12-12-2018, 10:32 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I'm curious about how you think the EU is being petty. Not that I disagree with them being petty, but given your post I feel like you may not understand that it is the British government that is dragging their feet on this. The issue is that they don't want to give up the benefits that come with EU membership. But there are requirements to those benefits, and those are what (in theory) the British people voted against with the Brexit vote.

If they don't reach a deal, then the UK is severed from the EU without one as of 29 March, 2019. Both parties can agree to a two-year extension, but I don't think the EU will agree to it.


I read the whole thing, but I only pasted this for brevity. I don't disagree with most of what you say here. However, I disagree that the circumstances warrant another referendum vote in the case of the Brexit question itself. They voted to leave, and they elected a Parliament to handle the negotiations after that occurred.

You both hit on what I have been saying:  They voted in people to handle it...and they have not.  What if new people are voted in because they run to reverse it?

I'm not saying (and never once said in this thread) that it should be a national referendum again just because it hasn't been done yet, but rather if enough people change their minds and put in people to stop it or change it...is that not democracy?