"Well Jim there may be a case to be made for educating the electorate"
Patronising shite - nice to see we aren't the ones you talk down to]
If you ask people to vote for something - a political party or a referendum, you are committed to explain what they are being invited to vote for - that's how democracy is supposed to work
This friggin referendum was won on getting rid of immigrants and meaningless "taking our country back" - nothing else - sort of like Trump's "Lets make America Great Again"
Both are a lie - America may have been powerful, but it was as bad as some of the worst dictatorships - Britain is in the hands of multinationals - no industries to sustain it and no plans to rebuild an industrial foundation to make Britain self sustaining - Britain's largest export percentage is finance to the tune of 30 plus percent
Britain can never become viable in that situation and, as the Financial Times has been pointing out since the referendum, it cannot plan to do so until the economy gets over the aftershock of Brexit - at least twenty years
When Britain leave Europe, it will have to find somebody else to be dependable on - who - Russia, China, Daffy Donald's U.S,...... the mind really does boggle

You appear to be describing a system that runs elections on the basis of an uninformed electorate and the only way to achieve that is by legislation - what the **** has that got to do with democracy ?
These are the horror stories that were told about Soviet Russia at the height of the Cold War - a "massive Empire held in thrall by ignorance and oppression"

Another referendum can be held simply on the basis as the last one was; "Knowing what you now know, do you still wish to leave Europe?"
There can be no possible argument that the electorate now knows far more of the consequences than it did last time around
The Ireland you despise so much as "bog-trotters" holds referenda on a regular basis, during which they have taken decisions that have overturned centuries of fears and ignorance imposed by the most powerful mind-controlling body on the planet
Two more in the pipeline, both on Constitutional issues - the women' place in society and divorce
You're not suggesting that the 'T'ick Micks' are better trusted to take serious decisions that are the former masters of the World - surely not !!
Jim Carroll