windmiller wrote:The trouble will start if democracy is ignored. Society will fall apart, Back stops even bus stops will cease to exist. I don't think ordinary people are stupid and know perfectly well that the system is abusing their self determination. No doubt we are seen as a joke by the rest of the world, this is because of toothless indecision, not by the people but by the arrogant elite. The kraken has been released, the dice have landed, Rubicon crossed blah blah blah, no more head in the sand time left.
The trouble will really start when people have no jobs and nothing to eat. And if you argue that this was already happening before the referendum, then I'd agree with you, but point out that it happened under policies promoted by almost all of the leading Brexit campaigners. We'll be in a country run by the very same people who have created the poverty, but a country with a less money and less international influence.
Democracy can be interpreted rather flexibly, but if you've been following the news you'll know that the referendum was nothing like democracy. Whether Parliament confronts that or there's another referendum, or some sort of confirmatory referendum, it will be no less democratic than pursuing the last corrupted effort.
Ordinary people aren't stupid. Can we just call them people? People aren't stupid. But as everyone in the multi-trillion dollar global advertising industry knows, and every psychology student knows, people can be influenced. It was in the referendum, to use your language, that the system abused their self-determination.
