- Re: Pure Bunkum Archived Message
Posted by dereklane
on December 2, 2019, 10:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Pure Bunkum "
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The vote wasn't about a deal, and I was responding to your comparison which as I said was apples and oranges. Any deals, like with every state in the world, is the responsibility of various ministers to forge. The leave vote was just that. If a hundred and eighty five or so countries can manage them without Brussels telling them what to do, I'm sure the uk can too. The problem was and is that the politicians didn't want to, and therefore refused to honour the vote they called. Because it was the wrong popular decision. As I said, a problem for democracy. For the losers it's like playing a game of playground cricket and when you get bowled out taking your bat and ball and going home. If you want to play the game you must be prepared for it not always to be to your liking. If we start making up extra rules to suit ourselves after the fact, it doesn't work. I'm surprised at how complicated this is made out to be when some people are not on the side that won. And as I've said before, I didn't vote in that referendum. I support the result because it represents one true expression of democracy in a country that so far has suffered very little of the real thing. I believe strongly that anyone who advocates democracy on any level (even as a next best thing) should do the same, even when it doesn't suit. |