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Thread #160890   Message #3820069
Posted By: Steve Shaw
12-Nov-16 - 07:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit again
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit again
Well I would never advocate any referendums as I regard them as tremendously undemocratic and a dereliction of duty by the government we elected to run the country and to have far more of the expert knowledge so to do than the ordinary people. But we now find ourselves hostage to a referendum result predicated on a question that, it's becoming clear, was far more complex in its implications than the people were told, and about which even the government are getting tied up in knots about. When it comes clear what the "deal" is, and what the adverse implications of our leaving are, the decision must be revisited. If it becomes plain, as I think it will, that the brexit decision is taking us to hell in a handcart, someone has to decide whether we should continue on that road or not. As a referendum triggered this mess, it may take another one, with a different question, to attempt to get us out of it. And we need to know what the government is saying in its negotiations. We must resist the lie that "we mustn't show our negotiating hand." Yes they must. Democracy demands it. I understand that urgent matters of national security may require secrecy. We are not in that ball game here. The powers that be in Europe are all too aware of our hand already. The only conceivable reason for keeping negotiations secret from the British people is that we may not like seeing the embarrassing compromises that the government will have to air in public. Heaven forfend that we might even want to change our minds!