Robin Hood wrote:Erolz66:
Yes it really is very very simple. The people should NEVER have anything imposed on them that a majority of them do not want. If there is even marginal doubt on what it really is that the people do or do not want in majority it should be tested and not assumed.
What a wonderful idea! Let’s have a referendum on whether we want to pay income tax or not, or pay road tax on cars, or duty on fuel, or local rates etc ........ I think a guess of an outcome in favour of ‘NOT’ would be a reasonable predictions. We could make voting in referendums a full time job as there are just so many things we could vote on ..... then vote on again .... and again .... and again.
We could even have degree courses on ‘voting’. Can you see just how stupid this peoples vote could get.
We had a referendum on leaving the EU .... option ‘YES’ or ‘NO’ ...... those in favour of leaving were the majority! Those that voted to remain were the minority ....... the vote carries and the opinion of the losing side is no longer of relevance! END!Now let's implement the will of the majority!
Those that voted to remain are not the sharpest knives in the drawer because they are still depicting doom and gloom over 3 years after the vote, when most indications are the opposite and then blaming the fall in the value of sterling, which should really be going up if it was based on the UK’s economic performance, on something that has yet to happen instead of the bleedin’ obvious .........
speculation based on
THEIR doom and gloom predictions. Which so ar have not materialised.
Finally something lol.
The statement is one of democratic principal. I state it to seek to test who is truly committed to democracy and who is just saying they are.
In order to deal with the logical contradiction, in your claim that 'leavers are the true democrats, remainers are the anti democrats' and that statement, without having to challenge your belief, you have had to come up with a 'trick'. The trick you have come up with is to pretend the statement says something about HOW you implement the principals of democracy. It does not. It IS much much simpler than that, if as Londonrake says you really are a democrat. It just states a simple easy to understand principle of democracy that you need to agree with if you truly are a democrat.
How we have for 500 years implemented this principle of democracy my statement states, when making decisions on everything, including if we should pay tax, how much we should pay, is via a process of - the people vote for their MP's, MP's vote on proposed laws that reflect what the people want. Majority of MP's decide. That process is the best way we have found of implementing the principles of democracy, one of which is embodied in my statement. It is not contradictory to that principal. At all. That you have to try and imply that the statement says that you must have referendum on x or y or z , when it so clearly does not, is your 'trick'. I have and can see how the trick is performed. I have told you how.
That once you have used your (not very good) trick you immediately then go back to saying what you have been saying over and over, whilst complaining this is something remainers do and leavers do not just speaks to your hypocrisy.
So once more I will make the (revised, thanks B25) statement of democratic principal. I have to repeat it because you have not yet addressed it, in light of how you say we should exit the EU, just sought to avoid it. The responsibility for the repetitive nature of this is yours not mine.
Yes it really is very very simple.The people should NEVER have anything imposed on them, by their own democratic system, that a majority of them do not want. If there is even marginal doubt on what it really is that the people do or do not want in majority it should be tested and not assumed.
and ask the question - "How can anyone who is truly a democrat disagree with the statement above" ?
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This is all just so fascinating to me. Not in terms of Brexit, not even in terms of democracy. But in terms of how and why humans tell them selves things, believe things that are not true and then what they do in response to having those beliefs crash in to the hard implacable wall of logic. Fascinating.
Will you 'address the issue / question' ? Will you keep looking for tricks ? Will you go silent ? Fascinating.