| Topic: | Re:Ealing MPs vote against triggering Article 50 | |
| Posted by: | Brian Conneller | |
| Date/Time: | 02/02/17 16:51:00 |
| You can't really say it is "the will of the people" to leave the EU, as if the people had voted en masse for it, when there was,in fact such a relatively small majority in favour of such a momentous change. Also the people of Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay. The problem is that the results of leaving were at the time largely unknown, if not unfathomable, and still are. Even if the vote had been overwhelmingly in favour, which it wasn't, it could still have been disastrously wrong. This is a case where safety does not necessarily lie in numbers. |