Best of three hasn't been tried in regard to referendums, and I didn't actually say it had been. In both cases where there was a repeat referendum on EU membership, in Ireland and Denmark (in both cases after further negotiation had produced responses aimed at meeting some of the reasons people were deemed to have voted against), the second vote went the other way, and there was no third vote.

Given the strength of feeling shown by Brexiters I think it would be reasonable, in the event that a second vote went for staying in the EU, to allow a third vote to decide. In the event that the second vote was for leaving, it would be reasonable to accept that. And the same would apply to Brexiters if the third vote went against them.

But of course this isn't going to happen, and I haven't been arguing for it to happen. But the fact that it is not going to happen does not indicate a respect of democratic process, but in some ways an evasion of it.