[Info-vax] The changing world

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/4/2022 9:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-07-04, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> Yes, but it was announced as a non-binding referendum and it is clear
>> that many would have voted differently if it had been declared as
>> binding.  Of course, one is not forbidden to implement the result of a
>> non-binding referenendum, but if it is a) non-binding and b) close, as
>> in this case, then common sense dictates that there should have been a
>> binding referendum after, say, 6 months of debate.
> 
> Also, before the vote, Leave was saying that there would be a smooth
> transition to a new trading order with appropriate agreements between
> the UK and the EU.
> 
> Shortly after the vote, that suddenly switched to Leave saying that people
> had voted for a hard exit.

Politicians not telling "the truth, the whole truth and only the truth"
before the people voting is not that uncommon.

It should have been clear to the voters that an agreement that was not
agreed one and not even defined yet was not a sure thing.

"should have been" <> "was"

but .....

Arne