Nigel Farage Has Suggested That A

[emmie]

second referendum would be decisive once and for all in favour of leave, do you agree?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5257959/Nigel-Farage-calls-Brexit-referendum.html

[emmie]

I don't and I doubt Mrs May would go for it, just in case.
Blair has been calling for a second referendum but he is a Europhile, or so it seems.

[andy-hughes]

No.

You can't ask the electorate to vote, and then have people barging for another vote because they didn't like the result of the first vote - that makes a mockery of the democratic process.

Where do we draw the line?

Have another election right after the next one, if some people don't; agree with the majority vote?

If the remainers had won, would they be clamouring for another vote in case the leavers wanted another shot at it?

It's hot air and nonsense, typified by Tony Blair who has no validity in the argument whatsoever - and the process should continue until its conclusion because that is the will of the people.

The democratic process works on the will of the people, not the will of the people who may have got it wrong / didn't know what they were voting for / hadn't got the facts / and all the other spurious nonsense being spouted.

The people have spoken, the remainers will just have to learn to live with it and stop harping on about another vote, it's not going to happen.

[emmie]

Its Nigel who suggested we have another vote.

[Islay]

Farage seems to think that it would show that everyone is in favour of Brexit.
But what if the remainers win - will he then say that Oh well nevermind the 2nd vote didn't matter.
That man is an attention seeking plonker!

[Bazile]

So what's happening to the darling of the brexiteers ?

//Mr Farage insisted he thought Leave would win re-run by a much bigger margin //

And what would he do when they didn't ?

[Kromovaracun]

It would be a disaster. The first one was divisive enough. And if the second had a different result, the damage to society would be incalculable.

[emmie]

he isn't a plonker, that much is evident as the instigator of UKIP, he has had the biggest impact on our leaving the EU than anyone in recent memory.

[emmie]

personally i think it would split the country and that is what we or he wouldn't want.

[Kromovaracun]

A second referendum would be win-win for Farage.

Same result: he is vindicated, 'man of the people' etc.

Different result: gets to play the champion for the "betrayed" 52%, an image he has been cultivating for some months.

This man isn't an idiot. He's done very, very well out of all this carnage. I imagine he's hedging his bets.

[ToraToraTora]

I can see what the great man is saying but I don't think it's necessary, leave won and that's an end of it. If the EU survives much longer all the hard done by saucepans can re join in 25 years time.

[Islay]

Sorry the man is a ploker !!
But as a politician (which was his job) he managed the greatest upset to the UK in recent history (you can take that any way you want it)

[gulliver1]

Don't believe it , Farage is talking sense at last,
but be careful he is very very slippery , he is up to something for his own advantage.

[emmie]

what could that be, after all he is doing well so far.

[Bazile]

He's just grooming himself for that Khighthood

[Kromovaracun]

Us metropolitan liberals severely underestimated Farage. Let's not make the same mistake twice, eh? He's more influential now than he has ever been.

[Islay]

Emmie how is he doing well?
Just a few weeks ago he was complaining he was broke, couldn't walk down the street without being attacked and that his wife and girlfriend had left him!

[emmie]

Islay
you sure that wasn't tongue in cheek, not least he has his pension of 73K, that may not be that much to what he is used but its more than most get.

[Kromovaracun]

I would be very skeptical about his claims of being skint.

Farage now has a hugely popular radio show, he has successfully proclaimed himself the victor of Brexit and the voice of the 52% (a title nobody else went for) and he even has strong personal links in the White House. This is the reason he - personally - was able to schedule a meeting with Barnier on Monday. He has more influence over right-wing Tory backbenchers than the current PM does. He has more political influence now than he did in 2014, when his party was popular enough to spook Cameron into promising that wretched referendum in the first place.

[Kromovaracun]

Not to mention he is now shot of his party - a vehicle he was using until 2016 to promote himself - which in the end proved to be a constant headache for him.

[emmie]

it wasn't a wretched referendum. Not to those who believe we will be better off out of the EU.