I never really thought that the UK was a democracy. It's a constitutional monarchy. You have a queen with powers of royal ascent. That she rarely uses them is moot. You don't vote on your leader (PM) and referendums are non-binding. There is no vote in the US that is not a legally binding vote, which sometimes creates a bit of pickle. For instance, a bullet train project was passed pre-Recession, now we can't afford the $40 billion+, but the state constitution says we must find a way to pay for it no matter what or hold a costly election to repeal it. They can't just say, "yeah, well, the budget isn't looking too good. Who cares what the electorate says, we don't have the money."
UK politics has always puzzled me. A sovereign parliament, a leader who only remains in power if party is in power (coalition), votes of no confidence not initiated by public decree (impeachment US). You only gained the right to vote on things less than 100 years ago.
I am not bashing the system. You voted for Brexit, initiated Article 50, and now you're getting cold feet. Who does somebody think they are (Bremainers) that they think know better. It doesn't matter if only stupid people voted for Brexit. That's a problem with the electorate. If you don't like it make it something different like a meritocracy—where only the most capable have say otherwise "quit your whinging!"
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I see it relatively simply, we had a good trading relationship with the EEC until the early 90's, we signed up to that in the 70's with reservations about the political ambitions of the EU. Then the UK signed up to political treaties to join the EU without consultation which confirmed the suspicions of the EU's political ambitions and that has resulted in Brexit.
Those that voted leave have not got cold feet, only remain MPs have. The majority of leave voters want to leave come hell or high water because of the basic principles of 'democracy' that the EU denies us, we don't like to be ruled by unelected overlords that we have no chance of ridding ourselves of, they can and have imposed many unpopular laws that have to be incorporated into our legal system, we have no control over this. Economics are now a secondary consideration.
The situation that has come to light since the referendum has been enlightening, opening many eyes to modern politics, geopolitics, globalism, populism, elitism, fake news MSM etc etc
The EU is analogous to the USSR, the only way to leave is by popular vote or violence, Brexit is the test case for the EU, if it succeeds the dominoes could start to fall, if Brexit fails then they can accelerate their political ambitions.
One major reason why UKGov is so reluctant to leave is because of the military, intelligence and security position they have agreed with the EU. EU military unification is little debated, never reaches MSM and is enacted bypassing parliamentary scrutiny, it's almost as if it doesn't exist and yet it is happening under our noses, much as most of the Brexit negotiations have been obfuscated and kept from scrutiny, so has EU military unification.
