I'm really fed up with this stuff about it being "defying the people's will" to call for a chance to stop Brexit. Our whole semidemocracy is founded on the principle that after every election the opposition sets out to change "the people's will", as expressed in that election, and at the next election to succeed in getting people to reject the result of that election. Democracy is all about challenging "the people's will". The logic of this "defying the people's will" is that once there's been an election we should all line up with the winners, and never have another election. That's the way dictators typically operate.
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