'Let's walk off a cliff because someone said so!'
I really loathe this trend towards shutting discussion and debate over Europe. I find it incredibly undemocratic and appallingly reductionist. As if everything can be boiled down to a simple yes / no question and then, once a small majority says yes, that's it FOREVER. No more discussion, no more arguments, no more facts, no more experts - the people have spoken and for all time it must be so.
Fuck that. We are a representative democracy where each parliament is unbound by the previous. People should still campaign to stay in Europe, people should press their MPs, and if there is a general election and it returns a different result we should not leave Europe.
I'm sorry but the entire tone stinks of something approaching censorship at this rate - 'shut up, be quiet, the people have spoken and we will no longer talk about this in any way'. I also think the implicit threats are appalling - MPs have to do this thing they know will wreck the country because otherwise leave voters will.... Wreck the country? It's funny how remain campaigners get attacked for simply protesting within the law, and yet leave campaigners keep going back to 'violence on the streets' if the result is later ignored / overturned.
I mean, ffs, by the time article 50 ends demographics alone will have probably shifted the result to Remain. That alone should give anyone pause for thought - when we actually leave Europe a majority of the voting population will probably want to stay.
