arthur
Very well known Exeweb poster
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You are right of course. What I really don't like is that neither of these choices about our relationship with the EU were made with very much, if any, consideration of the advantages and drawbacks of EU membership.Country has had 2 opportunities since to vote in a way that shows it made a massive collective mistake, and hasn't on either occasion.
You don't like it, I don't like it, but leaving the EU is what people voted for directly once and indirectly twice in the space of 3 1/2 yrs.
The referendum was an expression of anger and resentment against the political class. The GE was about which of two deeply flawed politicians was the less objectionable.
My point is that there has not been a well informed debate and decision taken about EU membership. There has been a lot of emotive and often dishonest noise, followed by the answering of a different question to the one asked about the EU. Our democracy and its out of date and deeply inadequate processes are responsible for an act of national self harm that has become impossible to prevent.