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When Are These Idiotic Anti-Democratic Remoaners Going To Give Up?
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One can voice what you like. But using your democratic right to try to overturn a democratically arrived at decision is hardly proper behaviour.
If a few folk get cold feet at having found the courage to have done the right thing, and wish to prove that they flip flop, it still doesn't stop it being the right decision initially. Thank goodness we don't act like the EU and take votes again and again until the elite get the answer they prefer. Just saying.
If a few folk get cold feet at having found the courage to have done the right thing, and wish to prove that they flip flop, it still doesn't stop it being the right decision initially. Thank goodness we don't act like the EU and take votes again and again until the elite get the answer they prefer. Just saying.
It's not anti-democratic to protest, or to march, or to complain about a decision you think is wrong. Nor is there much point in asking the question about what would happen if the positions were reversed. I'll tell you what would happen: the narrowly defeated Brexit supporters would certainly not think "Oh, I guess staying in the EU was the right thing to do after all, mine eyes have been opened and I see the light now that the EU is the beacon of freedom and prosperity rather than, as I argued passionately yesterday, the shackle on our access to the world and the noose around our necks."
And why not? Brexit supporters voted for a cause they believed in, and in the event of a narrow victory in Remain's favour would it not provide encouragement that the argument could be won in the near future, or under slightly different circumstances? And here's the thing, too, why shouldn't you keep pushing for what you believe in? You might accept the legitimacy of the result, but you would certainly not accept the correctness of it.
The same is true for Remainers. I can't speak for all who voted to leave the EU but I certainly still believe I made the right decision, even if the country as a whole disagreed with me.
None of this should change the general direction the country is set in now, which is Brexit, but I'm getting tired of seeing Brexit supporters conflating protest at the correctness of a decision with protest at the legitimacy of it.
And why not? Brexit supporters voted for a cause they believed in, and in the event of a narrow victory in Remain's favour would it not provide encouragement that the argument could be won in the near future, or under slightly different circumstances? And here's the thing, too, why shouldn't you keep pushing for what you believe in? You might accept the legitimacy of the result, but you would certainly not accept the correctness of it.
The same is true for Remainers. I can't speak for all who voted to leave the EU but I certainly still believe I made the right decision, even if the country as a whole disagreed with me.
None of this should change the general direction the country is set in now, which is Brexit, but I'm getting tired of seeing Brexit supporters conflating protest at the correctness of a decision with protest at the legitimacy of it.
fair enough jim but you do see that the protesters in the link are in fact demanding that the result be ignored, ie they are quite happy to ignore the result simply because it's not what they voted for. I have been impressed by many remainers, some on here, accepting the result and saying it should be implemented even though they did not vote that way but these protesters seem to want to cynically ignore the result.
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/// It doesn't matter if they are "right" or "wrong"...they still have the right to voice their opinions. I thought that was what democracy was about. ///
Wow hark at the Left stating that it is their democratic right to protest, pity they don't think that when they turn out in force to oppose and disrupt any Right-Wing protests.
Can't see any Brexit supporters turning out to oppose these Remoaners, perhaps it is because they are not so hypocritical and really believe that everyone holds the right to protest?
/// It doesn't matter if they are "right" or "wrong"...they still have the right to voice their opinions. I thought that was what democracy was about. ///
Wow hark at the Left stating that it is their democratic right to protest, pity they don't think that when they turn out in force to oppose and disrupt any Right-Wing protests.
Can't see any Brexit supporters turning out to oppose these Remoaners, perhaps it is because they are not so hypocritical and really believe that everyone holds the right to protest?
Also how many of you voted in the 'Join the Common Market' referendum in 1975 and how did you vote?
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It was 67% join, 33% stay out and I voted stay out !
Yes I have changed my mind. As I remember the main argument against joining was that it would mean a huge rise in prices, but we got that anyway.
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It was 67% join, 33% stay out and I voted stay out !
Yes I have changed my mind. As I remember the main argument against joining was that it would mean a huge rise in prices, but we got that anyway.
"Wow hark at the Left stating that it is their democratic right to protest, pity they don't think that when they turn out in force to oppose and disrupt any Right-Wing protests."
Nah, the right to protest goes hand-in-hand with the right to tell other protesters that they're wrong, and to do so to their face if you like. There's no contradiction here.
Nah, the right to protest goes hand-in-hand with the right to tell other protesters that they're wrong, and to do so to their face if you like. There's no contradiction here.
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