Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
For nearly three years Leavers have been lecturing Remainers about how 17.4 million voted a certain way and, although it put me on the losing side, they were right to do so - I see it as the biggest single argument in favour of Brexit and have always said that the decision should be honoured, hence my lukewarm, at best, support for a second Referendum.
However, where that argument breaks down is when people try to do as you and Elwood have done and start to argue that things like, say, a Norway/Canada deal or a customs union somehow does not represent the wishes of Leave voters. There is absolutely no way of knowing this for certain because of the simplicity in the Referendum question that Leavers seize upon when trying to use it to their advantage. All the result told us was that a majority of people who could be bothered voting on a random day thirty three months ago were in favour of leaving the EU - if we went ahead with any of the three options I mentioned above, we would be delivering what the Leavers voted for, we would be leaving the EU.
In the time since the vote, people with agendas on the Leave side have tried to claim that Leave meant a "hard" Brexit or a no deal Brexit. The definition of what a Leave vote meant has gradually shifted to represent the wishes of the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nigel Farage and Theresa May (with her idiotic red lines) - prove to me that this is what all of the 17.4 million were in favour of when they voted and I'll start looking at things in a new light.