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Thread #162855   Message #3902141
Posted By: Steve Shaw
27-Jan-18 - 07:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
In any second referendum the leavers will have the best slogans, most likely predicated on their trump card, which will be that remainers are trying to overturn democracy, here we go again, keep having referendums until you get the answer you want... In my view that's a load of nonsense which is actually undemocratic in itself, but it will be impossible to make that argument stick in the face of populist sloganising. Brexit can only be stopped by politicians having their heads banged together and made to act in the long-term interests of this country, not the short-term tactical interests of their parties. I believe that the vast majority of MPs know that we are heading for disaster, but they are seriously trammelled by their party machines. I feel very frustrated as a Labour Party member that the party seems so paralysed, in spite of the fact that the overwhelming majority of Labour voters voted remain and nine in ten of us hundreds of thousands of members want to stay in the EU.