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51% of the people though, on a question not an actual vote right?
So basically they are doing what they think saves their skins and nothing more? Which brings me back around again to who the hell we vote for in a GE, because frankly neither party seem fit at all. It's all rather depressing![]()
The vote was technically advisory, but no major politician was arguing against implementing the result before the vote. So doing so would've always gone down poorly, no matter how they tried to spin it.
The bigger problem was that the question itself was incredibly vague and didn't define what sort of Brexit we'd be undertaking. Hence Brexiteers were able to project their own varying visions onto the question. And it's clearly ridiculous that a narrow win for Brexit should mean we get the hardest of Brexit's imaginable. The reverse of that would've been Cameron using a narrow Remain win as a mandate for full-on federalism. Which would've had Brexiteers screeching with horror.