Except the referendum was split almost exactly down the middle (48-52?) how can the majority of politicians and people then just accept this as “well now we have too”... no we don’t and on top of that the leave campaign was campaigned on with lies.
A vote is a vote, you can't keep redoing it because the result was close because a decision has to be made one way or another. Also, the remain campaign lied just as much if not more with all their scare mongering and predictions of doom, so frankly if anyone on either side listened to the campaigns and didn't find out information for themselves then that's their own fault.
If you oppose something just because half of people don’t agree dosnt mean you should just cave and accept it...
Unfortunately it's a compromise you have to make for a democracy to work, a country can't run if it keeps changing it's mind on what it wants to do every 5 seconds because no decisions are ever made and implemented.
In fact the idea that we should only leads more credence to the idea of how imbalanced the BBC and media in general, is...
If you think that the BBC in imbalanced for reflecting the fact that most people can accept when the result of a vote doesn't go their way, and doesn't fill half of their panels with extreme remain voters who want more referendums until we get the "right" result, then you are far more biased than they are.
I'm not saying they don't have the best intrest in mind. I do wonder if it should be as valid. Don't you think kids aged 14-18 have the best intrset of the country in mind? We don't let them vote?
Frankly I don't like the idea of letting most people vote as it is as a lot of people vote based on incredibly stupid reasons. But I really don't think it's a good idea letting people as young as 14 vote because what do they know? Not a lot of anything on average. I'm 22, fairly well educated and try to keep my opinions as factually based as possible and I'd probably even exclude myself voting on most things as I'm hardly enough of an expert to make a truly informed decision, at least to a degree I'd be satisfied with, I can only vote on best guess based on what I do know. I suppose you can vote on general principles but they will be difficult to apply to a lot of cases.
I am wondering if their opinion is as valid. Can you see how condescending it sounds that old people have the best intrest in mind and their opinion is relevant while their vote actually affects the people who would want it the other way.
Those people will die soon yet their actions will have lasting affects on the people who where forced into it.
Yes their opinion is valid, they have the right to vote on the future of the country that they have lived in for decades and on the future of their families. It's about as disrespectful as saying "🤬 your opinion, this is
my country now, you can just shut up because you'll be dead soon anyway".
This is all ignoring the fact that ensuring that only people who will be affected by a vote can vote is impossible. Someone aged 70 years old could die in 5 years, or could die in 30, so how do you draw the line? On the flip side someone aged 18 could die before someone aged 80, so to say that old people shouldn't be allowed to vote because they might not be affected by is a ridiculous idea.
@Spurgy 777 The issue I have with the idea of a 'Remainer' pushing on with Brexit is that Brexit's best BEST case end game situation is having us abide by ALL the same EU law we do now, but have literally no power or input on those laws... that's the best possible end game, to simply be worse off than we already are...
Who voted for that? 52% of people didn't vote for that.
Meh,
you think it's the best case scenario for Brexit, 52% of people would probably say otherwise. The best Brexit was presented as one where the UK parliament has the final say in all laws, where we have the power to make our own trade deals, control immigration from the EU and where were no longer paying the EU money for a trade agreement. Whether all of that is achievable or not is up for debate, but that is what people who voted Brexit seemed to be voting for and support.
It's not surprising at all that you think that the best Brexit is one where we practically don't leave the EU at all and essentially remain, as you said nothing would change other than we no longer get to vote so what would be the point in leaving if we were to do that? It's why I hate the idea of a "soft" Brexit, there's no such thing, it's just remaining without any say on EU laws.
