Originally Posted by
Balinkay
The problem was that a referendum goes pretty starkly against the whole point of a representative democracy. I think it was idiotic to put it to a people's vote to begin with, especially when implemented as poorly as this. I don't know if the result will benefit the UK over a long period of time or not - hard to say. What I do know is that one side of the referendum covered a very wide range of views on the topic - the "Leave" side (No deal, Norway, Ukraine, Switzerland-style Brexit, custom Brexit and so on), while the other was hugely specific - nothing changes. At the end of the day, as much as remoaners get on my nerves for not accepting the will of the people (even though I think a people's vote on such an issue is moronic), I think they have a point when they say that the options put before the people were not the ones which will most likely end up taking place. Or at least those options were in no way clearly laid out, since the Brexiteers had about as much of an idea as to what to do in case of success as I do after asking out a girl.
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