Originally Posted by
ninianclark
Agreed, it was a mess - not sure it is such a mess now though.
I would say this , If Remain won and it was the other way around, would they now say - fair enough, lets have another one - 100% they wouldn't.
The dynamics have changed now, a referendum is a question at a moment in time, at that time we voted leave. There is clearly an issue with immigration and lack of population control - and it is out of control, we used to be a country of 55 odd million in the mid 90's I think, it is now nearly 70 million. There is clearly an issue of who / what we can trade.
The EU could have listened - they didnt and we all got the result and the confused mess which came next.
We also saw the EU in their true colours, it's too late now. So that makes us all Brexiteers now, we would never get the EU rebate back, we would never get the other opt outs we had. If the EU went back to a pre maastright arrangement - then there maybe a chance of going back. Most people in the Europe are fine with trading as one, using the same standards etc but I dont think they want one EU country.
Maybe the question should be to all EU countries, do they want to stay in the EU ? - why dont they all have a vote ?, do you think they would ? - I dont and that wouldnt be a fluke