Phil71 wrote:If, as the general consensus of MPs seems to think, brexit will be so damaging to the UK, you have to ask why the referendum was allowed in the first place.
We elect MPs to represent us and make sensible decisions in Parliament on our behalf, and yet The European Union Referendum Act 2015 was passed in Parliament with 544 MPs out of 596 voting for it.
Now a huge majority of them are saying brexit shouldn't happen in any form. If that is the case, why did they approve it?
If there was a referendum on the death penalty in the UK I'm sure it might very well get a yes vote. But it would never get to that because Parliament would never allow it. In fact they repealed it in the 1960s against popular opinion - because it was the right thing to do.
The only reason it happened was because Cameron was nothing but a political gambler scared of Farage. He promised it as a way to stop people flocking to UKIP and then held it to make it look like he was keeping his election promise. But the fact that he played almost every dirty trick in it to ensure remain won (using taxpayer money to fund that mail shot to everyone in the UK promoting remain being the main example) that the public saw right through it (plus all that sneering at the less well off by celebrities like Geldof) meant that Leave was the only realistic outcome.
Just a shame that Cameron reneged on his promise of doing what the people wanted and ran away like a coward when his gamble backfired.
