I disagree.
Revoke! you mean revoke the referendum result? Revoke democracy! Make a democratic vote in a democratic country null and void because you're not happy with it.
How about general elections, should we revoke those too? Maybe revoke every general election until we get back to one where you were happy with the result.
May and the Tory party in general, have engineered the whole thing to delay and delay and continue to delay until Brexit never happens. The Tories did not expect to lose the referendum, they expected a positive result! The political reporters can pontificate all they want on TV and in the press about where we should go next with this debacle but ultimately, I do not see Brexit happening without huge compromises to the EU which ties the UK to the EU apron strings on matters like the customs union, permanently.
We had a peoples vote.......It was called a Referendum! The British public made a direct decision to leave the EU. See below.
[ˌrɛfəˈrɛndəm]
NOUN
referenda (plural noun) ·
referendums (plural noun)
a general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision.
Why is a "people's vote" a pragmatic option. It's not, it's your option in the hope that another vote will produce the "right answer" and the right result, just like the Irish in 2008 on the Lisbon Treaty. Should we give 16 year old's a vote, like the Scottish did in their independence vote in the hope of cutting ties with England. What about that result, if it went the other way and they had voted for independence, should we have had another go until the Scottish electorate "got it right".
Below is an extract taken from a newspaper article at the time of the Irish vote on the Lisbon Treaty: Read the last line.
Imagine if, following the election of Barack Obama by 52.9% of American voters, the Republican party, which got just 45.7% of votes, demanded another election. Imagine if the Republicans described Obama's victory as a "triumph of ignorance" – brought about by an "unspeakable" and "ignorant" mass of people who should have been "swatted away by the forces of the establishment" – and insisted on
holding a second election so that, this time, the voters could "get it right".
There would be uproar, outrage, widespread disgust at such elite disdain for the democratic process. Well, now you know how the Irish people must feel. In June this year, 53.4% of Irish voters rejected the Lisbon treaty, against 46.6% who supported it (giving the "No" camp a "sweeping victory" similar to Obama's). Yet now the Irish will be asked to vote again. EU officials' behind-doors deal to force a second referendum in
Ireland reveals their utter contempt for Irish voters, and for democracy itself. It is an historic sucker punch against the sovereignty of the people.
As soon as the Irish people's ballots were counted in June, their rejection of Lisbon was treated as the "wrong" answer, as if they had been taking part in a multiple-choice maths exam and had failed to work out that 2+2=4. Now, they will be given a chance to sit the exam again, "until [they] come up with the right answer.. The notion that the Irish "got it wrong" exposes gobsmacking ignorance about democracy in the upper echelons of the EU.
The very fact that a majority of Irish people said no to Lisbon made it the "right answer", true and sovereign and final. "No" really does mean no.
In conclusion,
Democracy is only democratic if, in your opinion, we get the right result. That is not democracy, that is election result annulment, vote rigging, electoral fraud, and authoritarian, bullying, dictatorial , undemocratic , unaccountable ignorance of everything democratic.
