gullibility

We have a parliamentary democracy. The referendum was advisory. It is true that Cameron said he would act on it no matter how narrow the result but he had no right to do so.

If it had been an "instruction" rather than advice, it would have to have required a super-majority, usually 40% or 50% of the electorate. The first Scottish devolution referendum was won by "yes" but could not be enacted as the majority did not reach the threshold.

D.C didn't just say it, he put it in writing (the leaflet to EVERY household) and Parliament accepted it without a murmur, so presumably they are as much to blame for this lackadaisical attitude as D.C. Only now has Parliament woken up to the fact that what they so cavalierly agreed to was in fact a gross misjudgment and virtually unsolvable. What to do? Pass the buck back to us to sort out?!!! But hang on, YOU are 'the clever men/ women from Oxford who know all there is to be knowed' (quote) we're simple, probably well meaning, gullible maybe racist, homophobic uneducated Jo/e Soap public, so if YOU can't work it out, how on earth can we?!!

This article was wrotten last September, but I wonder how many guillible folk have since realised that they were fooled?

"More than 2.6 million people have abandoned their support for Brexit and now back staying in the EU, a major study has concluded.

If the huge number of Britons who have changed their mind had voted to stay in the EU in 2016, the referendum would have delivered a clear Remain verdict.

The data will add to the debate about whether the country now needs a new referendum, with millions having second thoughts about their Leave vote amid growing fears about Britain crashing out of the EU without a deal."

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-referendum-millions-leave-voters-best-for-britain-no-deal-theresa-may-conservative-government-a8521346.html