we're at a pretty pass!
jokigenki
The Scottish independence referendum was announced 2 years before the vote. The EU referendum, 4 months. There was a 670 page document that was released that spelled out exactly what the plan would be after a Scottish Yes vote, the leave EU campaign had a webpage consisting of less than 1400 words. There was no mention of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland or what would happen if Scotland wanted to remain in the EU, there is no mention of a plan to stabilise the pound in the event of a market crash, or how to stop companies leaving the UK. There isn't even any mention of when Article 50 would be invoked. How can you possibly say that this referendum should be respected when the people who voted for it couldn't possibly know what they were voting for?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-referendum-bregret-leave-petition-second-remain-latest-will-we-leave-a7105116.html#commentsDiv
In a sane political setup with a Prime Minister who didn't just panic and immediately leap to join the toys he's thrown out of his pram, this result would be seen merely as a trigger to actually spend the time and money and resources drawing up detailed scenarios for Remain and Leave, then either put them to a binding referendum with a higher threshold than 50/50, or go into a general election with the parties setting out their stalls on one side or the other with people having a clearer idea of what they were voting for.
Unfortunately, there's no appetite among the two major parties in Westminster for not accepting the result. The SNP aren't, but have chosen to go their own way so far with their own (imperfect as it is) mandate from the vote; the Lib Dems have said they'd go into an election on a Remain platform.
Meanwhile, there's a grave suspicion that if some event intervened right now to make the result null and void, Johnson and Gove would likely be privately jumping for joy. Hell, even Farage (not that I give a damn what that soused old millionaire thinks) might be happy, because he's pissed off at how Leave are watering down what his tiny dishevelled mind imagined people had voted for, and doing the sane thing might give them a clearer crack at it (not to mention postponing the day when he and UKIP have to actually deliver anything except discord, vileness and chaos).
Have I mentioned what a clusterfuck all this is?
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