[POLL] Brexit poll

[repoman]

 

[Jayjay]

Big referendums have a tendency to become proxies for other kinds of discontent, where people vote "no" just to spite the elites.

 

[lpetrich]

Big referendums have a tendency to become proxies for other kinds of discontent, where people vote "no" just to spite the elites.

I've seen that from some defenders of the "Leave" voters, that they voted to leave the EU as a protest against the continent's ruling class.

 

[bilby]

Eh. No. It is not binding.

It's silly wasting money on a referendum if nothing happens. There again Labour and Tory are good at doing this after winning an election so you may even have a point though it is an outside chance. If the government does not follow through this is likely to backfire.

Of course it was silly.

It happened though. The referendum is not binding; in law, the government is free to completely disregard this result. And given that a sizable fraction of the 'Leave' voters in the electorate will vote UKIP (and therefore are not included in the LAB/CON dogfight), and that a mostly non-overlapping faction of 'Leave' voters now regret their vote, the overall damage to the Tories of declining to trigger Article 50 could be negligible. So why, exactly, should they pull that trigger? What is in it for them?

 

[whichphilosophy]

Big referendums have a tendency to become proxies for other kinds of discontent, where people vote "no" just to spite the elites.

When millions vote, there are all kinds of reasons given.