Brexit Anyone ? (part 3)

Quote: bren2k "The whole idea of a referendum in the first place was fundamentally stupid; designed by Cameron to get the UKIP vote back into the Tory fold - but since that was the decision, it should have been done in a grown up way - and it just wasn't. Some countries have fine-tuned them to avoid the divisiveness, some have banned them altogether as an entirely unfit method to make political decisions - we did neither, and inflicted this whole binary argument on the UK, which feels like it has created wounds that will never heal.

But the genie is out of the bottle now, so the only way to proceed is to say here are the options, let the people speak - again - which is actually not in any way undemocratic; we do it with General and Local Elections all the bloody time.

Once it's done, fundamentally change our democracy - get rid of the stupid FPTP system, repeal the Fixed Term Parliament Act and ban referenda from ever being used again; or better still, get rid of the whole lot and install a benign dictatorship - I'd go for David Attenborough, although given his advancing years, maybe David Gedge out of The Wedding Present.'"

Totally agree re Cameron, he should be shot at dawn for cowardice, he called it then once the results came out he promptly annouced his resignation, but not before he had given just about the whole of his household access to the joke that is the House of Lords.
I also agree that we have general and local elections all the time, however, once the result is given that is it not re done just because people didn't like the result which is what is happening here, SNP would be having a referendum every year

if it were to be put back to the people, then staying in the EU should not be an option in my opinion, that has been decided by a referendum voted on by 80% of the population would therefore be undemocratic.
FPTP should be changed I agree. should be individual voices across the country.