This actually should read "Brexit - The will of the 17m + 50m who are okay with this"
This would have read the same if the result had gone the other way: "Remain - The will of the Xm + 50m who are okay with this"
At the end of the day, there was a vote and more people wanted Brexit, than Remain. A democratic process and result.
Pull the other one. This isn't the BBC Have Your Say comments section. People won't just believe that because you've declared it so.
Illegal data theft: https://twitter.com/Nealb2010/status/1059068463933743104
Flagrant violations of electoral law: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/journalist/ele... - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/17/vote-leave-...
Blatant lies and disinformation on immigration: https://www.europeanlawmonitor.org/eu-referendum-topics/summ...
General lies: https://www.independent.co.uk/infact/brexit-second-referendu...
More lies: https://minutehack.com/opinions/lies-damn-lies-and-brexit
Further lies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBxWiRz6A9E
External interference and disinformation: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/17/why-is...
And it's scandalous that the UK government hasn't properly invested everything that came out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
You may have a point about the fairness - the Government did pump in 9.3 million GBP to push the Pro-Remain position, in the form of a Pro-Remain pamphlet to every household in the UK. This, arguably, was hardly fair as the Leave side could not hope to match that level of expenditure to air their position, yet the people still voted Leave - go figure.
Putting the question to the people, in a representative democracy, is a terrible idea. they should have known this after Boaty McBoatface already.
In addition UK MSM has some of the most inflaming language in all the news in Europe (and even US). I have my news.google.com set to UK by default and I switch around to other region and languages to get a more complete picture. Every country has screamy headlines. But the UK tabloids (Express, Mirror and Daily) seem to be the absolute fucking worst. Even from just reading the headlines (and knowing that it's BS) fills me with more hate than any other country's news. And I wonder: if _I_ feel so incited by this, how do Brits feel who compared to me have actual skin in the game?
[1] actually on both sides. The leave camp was infiltrated by the radical right and the left was controlled by people who were so arrogant that they'd called anyone a racist who disagreed. Those minorities who are at the fringe and work 16 hrs days (while still on the brink of homelessness) were thrown into the same pot as white-supremacists.
Having watched many Commons discussions, it basically always ends with "but the 17M".
* Vote winner — your fault, don’t get to complain
* Vote loser/2nd party — you lost, suck it up, don’t get to complain
* Vote 3rd party/spoiled ballot — you wasted your vote, don’t get to complain
* Didn’t vote — you must be OK with any outcome, don’t get to complain
* Found new party — how interesting, let’s invite you on TV even if you got 249 votes total (Lord Buckethead), but anyone who voted for you still threw away their vote
* Left country — who cares, certainly not the council who is supposed to send you a postal vote (happened to a friend of mine in the EU referendum, would’ve voted remain)
That isn't due to apathy, and it isn't democracy either.
To avoid duplication, the rest of my comment is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19451579
