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Thread #162855   Message #3904743
Posted By: Iains
10-Feb-18 - 04:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
"Define "the majority," Iains."

A well educated scientist, biologist,botanist, bullshit artist should be capable of using a dictionary. And before you start your usual babbling of how many voted for what, read what is below.

As NIGEL said some months ago:
"It's interesting, this idea of retrospectively changing the rules, and retaining the status quo if a certain threshold isn't reached.

Of course, if the 2016 referendum were revised in this strange fashion, we would need to also look at the 1975 referendum which bound us to the EU. That was a 67.23% 'Yes' vote, on the basis of a 64.2% turnout.
So only 43.2% of the eligible electorate voted to bind us to the EU.

That's it, either we stick with the results of the recent referendum and we're out of the EU,
Or, we review (and overturn) both referendums and are out of the EU.


"Simples"