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Jas B
Lv 7
Jas B asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 5 years ago

Should we follow Farage's advice that a 52 - 48 result in the referendum, should result in another referendum?

Update:

Just last week Farage said such a result is not a clear mandate on such an important issue. A petition has been set up doing exactly this. A petition to the government for them to do this already has more than 3 million votes, https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215.

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  • 5 years ago

    There is a slight reason for this, but if it goes Leave again, what then - another referendum and another and another until we do get a Remain result. It costs money to run a referendum, money that would be better saving for the dark days ahead. I just hope that people in Europe appreciate how close this vote really was and that it remains fact that 48% wanted UK to remain.

  • Edward
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Yes. Considering that both Northern Ireland and Scotland voted to stay by majority.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    5 years ago

    No. That's a four percent difference.

    (52% - 48% = 4%) (for the retards that can't do math)

    Only when it's super close, like 50.1% 49.9%, should a second referendum be considered.

  • 5 years ago

    No, why? Firstly if we went back a week remain supporters would be saying that idea is stupid, as the country needs to accept the result, yet now the result has gone the other way, you and 3 million other idiots are being hypocrites. Secondly no matter how slight the country has voted to leave, a second referendum would simply be ignoring the first with over 17 million people saying they want out, which was the majority. Thirdly you had your chance to remain, and both sides said it was once in a lifetime opportunity, you should've gotten people to vote remain at that time. You can either whine about how democracy has been mean to you, and sign a petition which won't get anywhere, or you can just suck up the fact you lost, stop being a baby about it and try and help improve the country outside the EU.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    David Lammy, another sore loser. It is no surprise he wants to ignore the results, he and his ilk have been ignoring the views of the voters for years. He is no doubt one who thinks that everyone who voted out is a (OMG) a RACIST!

    So no, the referendum happened, remain lost.

    They promised to stick by results even if only down to one vote let alone 1.5 million.

    When will the cry baby bullies grow up?

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Who lammy LOL

  • 5 years ago

    Nigel has realised that we have voted him out of a job. Now he wants us to vote him back into his cushy job in Brussels.

  • 5 years ago

    Hmmm. The whole point of having a Parliament is to make sure we have workable laws, but they voted in legislation to allow a referendum and a simple majority morally, but not legally, obligating the government to submit to it.

    In the mindset of hard-nut conspiracy theorists, some kind of international crisis will ignite this summer, to prevent dealing with the actual act of Brexit.

    Oh, and i forgot to add the Nigel is not best-pleased with the bunch who took over the Leave campaign and now want to exclude him from the actual brexit negotiations. You just couldn't make it up: read this:-

    http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/25/furious-farage-exclu...

  • 5 years ago

    Farage has not said any such thing, you lying creep. The oposite, in fact. We're out so get used to it.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It was rigged* by the remain spooks anyhow very likely. But in contrast to the Scots vote rigging (or the Irish second Lisbon vote), the Independence vote was obviously too great to be annulled this time.

    Quite likely it was a 3:1 leave poll approx. if the real score was known, that is.

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