We are a parliamentary democracy and parliament should have decided.
“How dare those dirty proles be given a choice”
Comment on Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
IbnLemmy@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Britons voted for it, now they think it’s completely failed. I don’t know guys, but there some questions that we should just not ask Britons!!?
Personally voted against Brexit, but always believed it should never have even gone to a referendum. We are a parliamentary democracy and parliament should have decided.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They were, in who they elect to represent them.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
The problem is that it was an advisory vote and it is should have been handled by initially deciding a negotiating position.
Leaving the EU meant a lot of different things and the approximate idea of implementation should have been decided on before leaving.
Echrichor@feddit.uk 5 months ago
The yes/no nature of the vote was also a mistake. “Keep it as it is” Vs “change something” lumped in everyone who wanted anything from a swiss or Nordic style deal down to hard brexiteers to protest votes into the same category, when normally they wouldn’t have agreed.
If it were to happen at all, it should have been a ranked vote.
tal@lemmy.today 5 months ago
The problem is that it was an advisory vote
This is sometimes raised, but is misleading. The only reason it was legally advisory is because in the British system of government, the UK cannot bind Parliament; the House of Commons can override anything else.
In the system of government in some countries, the option for a meaningful legal difference between two types of referendum exists.
The British government had been explicit that what the British public voted for would be implemented; this is the closest analog to a binding referendum. Had they simply wanted to request the advice of the public, it would have been announced that they would take the outcome under consideration.
This is not to say that having that referendum was s good idea. It is just to say that the binding/advisory nature is really a property of the British system of government, not to indicate that the intent was to merely take the public’s vote as advice.
Damage@feddit.it 5 months ago
We are a parliamentary democracy and parliament should have decided.
It was decided by the political class, otherwise it wouldn’t have happened. With such a slim margin they could have said “oh well, it’s practically 50-50, it’s wiser to maintain the status quo”.
Echrichor@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Particularly given at the time it was presented as an opinion vote. Of course when it turned it the way the ERG wanted they couldn’t wait to push a retcon to make it binding through parliament because will margins apparently mean unassailable “will of the people”. Had it gone the other way they would have used it to push for another binding one “look nearly half of people want it… bla bla bla”.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Nigel Farage was already gearing up to become a massive thorn in everyone’s backside. He actually thought it probably would go that way he didn’t realize that he barely won.
rah@feddit.uk 5 months ago
there some questions that we should just not ask Britons
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tal@lemmy.today 5 months ago
“Which is the best brand of brown sauce?”
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I voted against it. I told everyone I knew it would be a shitshow. Countless others called out all of the lies from the leave campaign.
It’s not fun to have been proven right on something like this. 49% of britons did not want brexit and rightly knew how awful it would turn out.
Did prove 51% are either/both racist and stupid
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Those percentages aren’t even correct for the entire population cause not everyone voted. And I would argue most people that didn’t vote just wanted it to stay same as, and didn’t think Leave would’ve polled so highly among the voters.