The UK referendum concerning EU membership was conducted in compliance with national and international regulations and guidelines concerning referendum. In fact, in its post referendum report on the 2016 referendum in the UK, the Electoral Commission concludes that; ‘the rules put in place to support the referendum had worked well’. The referendum was lawful and further legal challenge also clarified that situation by voting to bring Article 50 into law. A measure that was supported by the house, even further entrenching the outcome in law.
The applicable rules governing referendum determine that the question cannot be conflated, concern multiple questions, be obfuscated nor contain conditionality. The choice must be simple and easy to understand, and so it was. Indeed, the original wording of the question as suggested by the government was amended by the Electoral Commission to ensure that the question should be as simple as possible and prevent any reasonable challenge concerning the validity of the outcome. That question was as follows:
Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?
- Remain a member of the European Union
- Leave the European Union
A question which could not be clearer. There was no mention of this being dependant on some form of halfway house nor deal which would make either side happier or less so. A leaflet was sent to every house in Britain confirming what a vote to leave meant. We were told it meant, taking back sovereignty and decision making as a nation. LEAVING the European Court. LEAVING the Customs Union. In summary, LEAVING the EU and its institutions entirely.
Therefore, anything other than a clean exit is undemocratic and renders the votes of UK citizens absolutely worthless. Not only this, but it may leave the government open to further legal challenge such as that we have seen this week where the government was challenged by Parlament to release legal opinion concerning Article 50. The result of which found the government in contempt of parliament for the first time in British History, resulting in an order to release the legal advice they were give.
It is interesting to note that this government seem to have the same contempt for their peers in the House of Commons as they do for voting public.
The fundamental right held by every British Citizen has been hard won over a thousand years. Yet, our Prime Minister and a dark cabal of globalists and politicians want to undermine the rights of the public for their own interests. An inner circle of government has colluded in secret with the foreign power with which are meant to be negotiating, disregarding their own colleagues and against the wishes of the majority of members of their own party. A truly incredible situation.
We have a party in power which has actively betrayed the wishes of the vast majority of the member of their own party and indeed the country as a whole and yet the now democratically illegitmate Prime Minister is still in office. Despite the will of the people of the UK, a rogue Prime Minister with incredibly low approval ratings is still in position despite publically betraying her own members. How can this be? why are MP’s allowing a leader that is destroying the prospects of her own party for a generation to stay in power?
If this debate has made one thing clear. It is that the UK has a very thin veneer of democracy which politicians can and will ignore when it suits them. This is something that should concern everyone, no matter what you vote. It turns out, that your vote is worth nothing in reality unless you vote in line with the ruling elite.
This has been made crystal clear and the treason committed by the conservative party will be punished for a very long time to come.
But back to the voters, many of whom, do not realise the precedent that ignoring a democratic vote sets for the country, nor how it affects their future rights.
Something which the loud minority calling for a second referendum must be clear about is that, you cannot set a precedent for ignoring a vote and expect to recover democracy in future because the issue suits you. That is a cat that, once let out of the back, is not going to go back in easily. Europe’s Elite have made little secret of their commitment to do away with democracy entirely and push forward with their ambitions regardless of what you think. Theresa’s Christmas present to the EU is not just the financial resources of Britain handed over on a silver platter. It is the huge blow to democratic rule in one of Europe’s largest and most powerful nations. If you can ignore democracy and the people of a country like Britain, one of the largest economies in the world, you can do it anywhere and they know this.
Setting the precedent that the leader of a political party can ignore the outcome of a democratic vote (in this case, the largest in Britain’s long history) is an end to the founding principle upon which our democratic rights depend.
The interesting thing about a second referendum is that many of those calling for it would suggest exactly the same wording as that used in the first place. Demonstrating a towering ignorance of the issue at hand. Others, lead by arch globalist Tony Blair, would undermine the original question by saying that, now there is a deal (which no one voted for) and the situation has changed. Not materially when measured against the original question, which they like to forget. But they suggest that the question is still one of stay or remain, or in fact, Theresa May’s remain, or just remain anyway. A nice democratic voting choice of; ‘Remain or Remain’ because those who would be our masters are hell bent on keeping you in chains either way.
The question we should all be asking is this; Why has Theresa May spent almost 2 years doing everything but her job as mandated by the British people?
What meetings has she had with the WTO to discuss the issue of the Irish border, what processes and procedures have been put in place to manage and mitigate identified risk?
Why didn’t she request that the requirement for a traditional hard border in Ireland be waived.
Why didn’t she look at the issue of technological solutions, which anyone who operates within a high value global supply chain knows is in fact BETTER than human scrutiny in almost all circumstances?
Where is the planning, the infrastructure and the commitment to making Britain successful. In short, where is the vision?
But let’s be honest, the Irish Border issue is a smoke screen of obfuscation used by the PM and the EU to try to undermine the vote of the British people. She obviously had no intention of ever leaving us out and the whole ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ was a sound bite that although resonating with pure common sense, was obviously one she never understood.
Theresa May has now spent almost two years wasting time on her pet project. Remaining in the EU. As it turns out, under worse terms than full membership.
We have the worst leader in British History, when we needed a visionary leader. For god sake Conservatives! (Something most I know, will never be again), get her out before she takes us all down with her.