[Info-vax] The changing world

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-04, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> I don't know how clear that is.
>
> It seems pretty weird to me to vote to leave if they wanted
> to stay because they assumed that the referendum result would
> be ignored.
>

It could have been seen as a protest vote against the government
by some people if people didn't think the result was going to have
any real impact (ie: was not binding or not enough people would vote
to leave the EU).

As strange as that might sound to some people, there is a strong
history of this in British political culture, where mid-term votes
are used by voters to send a message to the government.

There has actually been two very dramatic examples of this during
the last couple of weeks, where a very strong message was sent to
the government by two very different parts of the UK.

However, having said that, they did vote to leave so that's what needs
to be considered, not the reasons they choose to vote leave.

>
> There were a referendum. People voted. The politicians followed
> the majority's opinion.
>
> Maybe some people voted crazy, but they made their choice. And now
> they have to live with the result.
>

Yes they do.

> If the politicians had ignored the result or ordered a new referendum
> hoping or a better result I could see a democratic problem.
>

The SNP (the Scottish national party) have just laid out plans to do
just that in Scotland because the last one in 2014 with regards to
Scottish independence didn't go their way. The 2014 vote was sold at
the time as a once in a generation event.

Simon.

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