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In reply to the discussion: FFS, why can't Britain just admit that leaving the EU was a dumb idea, driven by Putin and a handful [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)Yeah, it makes every advance slow and painful. But we're also not going to have a bare majority of the people who bothered to vote deciding we're going to leave North America.
What happens when Scotland (which has its own oil wealth) decides it would rather stay in the EU?
That would mean that a single referendum led to the dissolution of the "United Kingdom."
It might also lead to a resumption of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland as free movement into and out of Republic of Ireland was a major part of the peace accords.
David Cameron was exactly the weak, pompous, rich boy coward you'd expect. He should never have called the stupid referendum-- which he probably did merely for his only own political benefit-- and once it passed, he could have said, "Thanks for the input! We get it! A lot of you don't like the EU! So now Parliament is going to study this and come up with ways to address your concerns."
No, he panicked and ran like a scared rabbit, enshrining what was just likely a protest vote into a huge and chaotic change.
As a real Anglophile, I'm wishing the Queen would step in and say, "Okay, enough of this vote stuff. This is MY kingdom, and I don't want it broken up."
(I really am for democracy, but sometimes ... democracy can be manipulated and the true will of the people suppressed.)