Quite So

Things were different in 1975.

They cite Harold Wilson’s free vote at the time of the 1975 referendum over Britain’s membership of what was then the Common Market. They forget that once the vote had gone in favour of membership, there were no attempts to block or reverse it.

And therein lies the difference. There was a referendum – advisory or not – and its result was followed, because that is how it should be. Sure, as time went on, there was a campaign for another referendum on continued membership. I have no problem with this as it is a part of the democratic process. What is not part of the democratic process is for the losers to continue to try to reverse the result. If, in time, they wish to campaign for re-entry, then fine, good luck to them in their endeavours, but they have no place trying to override the results of the referendum because they lost.

These people are not democrats, they are anti-democrats.

And this whole sorry Labour sideshow takes place as a prime minister with no electoral mandate for her platform

Oh, for fuck’s sake! Is this moronic claptrap still being peddled in the mainstream media? The UK has a parliamentary system. We elect a party to government. We do not elect prime ministers. In 2015, the referendum, was part of the Conservative party manifesto. May is merely following the democratic mandate granted to her predecessor. Of course she has a democratic mandate. She will continue to have that mandate so long as her party remains the party of government. Such fucking ignorance in the press is why it is becoming increasingly irrelevant.