bramling
Veteran Member
The 'why?' is in my previous post. I have explained my reasons for voting the way I did numerous times in this thread. I can live with the result. Although it would be a far easier thing to live with with hindsight. Leave lied. Remain were incompetent. Those charged with carrying out the supposed will of the people are an absolute shower of 5h!t. The referendum was unnecessary. David Cameron didn't solve the problem in his party once and for all. He just extended it to the country. And those that came to the fore after he slunk off are even more incompetent than him.
A representative democracy elects politicians to make the big decisions on behalf of the electorate. Major policies should be in a manifesto. Then put before Parliament by the governing party. "Vote for us and we'll introduce legislation to keep you in/take you out of Europe." Referenda are for plebiscite democracies. The UK is not such.
I really get sick of hearing this point that the referendum was only to resolve a Conservative party internal divide, as though all those UKIP votes around that time were just a figment of imagination.
Cameron may have made a mess of the referendum in failing to anticipate a leave vote, but he was absolutely right in calling it.
I take it no one thinks the Scottish referendum was some kind of attempt to resolve an internal party issue?!