Any political debates aside, the petition to call for the 2nd referendum just logically does not make sense. It is "to implement a rule that if the remain or leave vote is less than 60% based a turnout less than 75% there should be another referendum". Started yesterday, and as of now it has over 1.2 million signatures. It is asking Parliament to implement a rule retrospectively.
When the number of signatures exceeds 100,000, the petition becomes eligible to be debated in Parliament. It's exceeded. That's the only part that makes sense. But would that make anything possible? Recall anything that's been decided? Bring Gordon Brown's government back who resigned 6 years ago (if we wanted to! for the sake or argument of course)...?
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215
And I'm guessing if we didn't like the 2nd referendum result, we could start another petition for;
- 3rd Referendum - to implement a rule that if the remain or leave vote is less than 90% based a turnout less than 90% there should be another referendum
- 4th Referendum - to implement a rule that if the remain or leave vote is less than 50% based a turnout less than 30% there should be another referendum
And so on...eternally.
Quite a few people rant in the street interviews "I'm ashamed to be British! Oh my God, oh my God!"... I feel rather embarrassed to watch them cry, I feel sorry that they're not understanding what democracy means - whatever bad the outcome is, that's what we've decided. Did you just realise now you are ashamed to be British? Then you were a bit too ignorant of the pre-referendum campaigns...
What's worse is people who openly say that they want a referendum all over again, because they "didn't realise the consequence of Brexit".
I can understand their sentiments. My heart goes out to them as the same British. But there's no validity in that statement and it's too moronic. They ignored all those big, furious campaigns and the actual referendum preparations. The schedules, all the budgets, media coverages...to make one-time big decision. Now the decision's been made, and they're saying they didn't take any of the campaigns seriously, they want it again.
Can an Olympic silver medalist claim that? I wasn't serious, I didn't really know what was going on and I could have claimed the gold medal...can we run a track again?
