Brexit Thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

The closeness of the vote is disturbing.

Politics would ALWAYS be easier if political life were a series of 70-30 wins....important decisions are seldom that clear cut.

Heck, on our side of the pond we seldom have a President elected by margins larger than that of yesterday's EU exit vote.

[Husar]

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[Seamus Fermanagh]

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I would suggest that Churchill's old aphorism about 20 and 40 might well answer this gibe.

[Beskar]

Politics would ALWAYS be easier if political life were a series of 70-30 wins....important decisions are seldom that clear cut.

The thing is, not having it clearcut leaves a bad taste in every ones mouth. Similar with like the Scottish Indepedence which was a similar result. If it was 60/40 or 70/30 people would be like "yup, we lost, we have to accept it", but when it is 52/48 people are like "just a couple more votes would have meant we won!" which leaves them feeling angry and frustrated, and they start to blame people. "if you did a little bit more, we would have won!" etc.

Being honest though, David Cameron was a poor choice for "In", and the whole "Tories for In" and "Tories for Out" was farcical. Labour virtually did nothing, and I understand Coryn wanted leave, he should have at least stood up and said it, instead of half-heartedly not doing anything.

Libdems actually did a decent "In" campaign which didn't resort to things like "Leave would trigger WW3", but no one cares about them since the collapse under Cleggers.

[Pannonian]

The thing is, not having it clearcut leaves a bad taste in every ones mouth. Similar with like the Scottish Indepedence which was a similar result. If it was 60/40 or 70/30 people would be like "yup, we lost, we have to accept it", but when it is 52/48 people are like "just a couple more votes would have meant we won!" which leaves them feeling angry and frustrated, and they start to blame people. "if you did a little bit more, we would have won!" etc.

Being honest though, David Cameron was a poor choice for "In", and the whole "Tories for In" and "Tories for Out" was farcical. Labour virtually did nothing, and I understand Coryn wanted leave, he should have at least stood up and said it, instead of half-heartedly not doing anything.

Libdems actually did a decent "In" campaign which didn't resort to things like "Leave would trigger WW3", but no one cares about them since the collapse under Cleggers.

London was 60/40 remain with heavy floods markedly affecting voting.