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[โ€“] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can't upvote this enough. I was in London before the vote, there was obviously a ton of people against it. This should have required at least a 2/3 majority.

[โ€“] taladar@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They should have required the non-binding referendum to actually be non-binding, especially considering how vague the question and answers were and how few people participated.

[โ€“] Risk@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

It's a long string of Tory failures that they enacted pretty much only so they could keep their hands on power.

Cameron > made the referendum part of the 2015 manifesto to stop UKIP splitting the Tory vote.

May > enacted Article 50 to stop the totally-not-UKIP/disaster capitalists from paralysing the party

Johnson > made 'oven ready shit ~~biscuit~~ Brexit' part of the 2019 manifesto so he could whip his party of YesMen into doing whatever the fuck he liked.

Makes me so so angry.