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Oh, hang on.. thats what General Elections are for.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
The Daily Mail, the SNP....Always had a sneaking suspicion you know.
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Similarly, the whole basis of the UK Leave/Remain decision is entirely different now that anyone has close to half an idea what the effect will be, and having seen how inaccurate the promises and campaigns turned out to be.
To pretend that the result of those 2 votes aren't entirely undermined by subsequent events is wilful ignorance/deceit.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
At the time of the campaigning, significant specific statements were made, or left wilfully uncorrected, like the extra NHS funding, like the controls on immigration and other stuff that played well with people who voted to leave.
Now even if we say that this was all well-intended and sincere, it turned out it wasn't right. We now have clarity on things that were previously somewhere between 'possible' and 'being promoted as would happen'
These things had a massive bearing on the outcome of the vote.
I don't believe for one minute there WILL be another vote, so I can stomach the "tough luck, this is where we are at and it is happening"
What I can't/am not prepared to accept is that an intelligent person would think that the basis for the decisions that individual voters made remains as valid now as it was then.
There *should* be a proper vote, with a better informed campaign. The one we had makes us look a laughing stock.
If that better campaign/vote happened, and the result was the same then fine. But this is a sham.
The sad truth is that all of the facts were available during the referendum campaign. However, many of them were obscured by both campaigning sides doing a poor job of promoting them, or deliberately obfuscating them.
Our democracy does, unfortunately, rely on voters doing their own thinking and research, rather than taking everything that politicians say to them at face value. Sadly, many voters do take what politicians say to them at face value.
1. The sitting government had a position on the referendum, and failed to address misinformation
2. The fact that there had to be legal tests afterwards which were closely argued shows that nobody was really in a position to lay out the pros and cons.