You still just don't seem to grasp the concept of a binary choice, the winner-takes-all etc. That's what a two choices system is all about; should it be abandoned because in this case the outcome doesn't coincide with what a minority feels?
It was an utterly flawed exercise, that should never have been undertaken. Any small amount of forethought would have make any but the silliest person realise that offering a binary choice on such a complex issue was doomed from the outset to end badly.
And, if it is to be abandoned, then the
last reason for doing so would be because "the outcome doesn't coincide with what a minority feels" (leaving aside the question of whether it is still a minority in any case).
No, the reason for abandoning it would be because the government had thoughtlessly embarked us on a course which has proved to be as unworkable as any sensible person would have realised it was from the start. After forty years of membership, our systems, cultures, and processes are far too entangled for them to be swiftly or easily separated in the simplistic way many of the more strident Leave supporters would have us believe they want. And it is very likely that far more of those who voted Leave did so in ignorance of the difficulties (largely thanks to some very dubious campaigning).
No, the honourable thing to do now would be for the Government to go back to the people, apologise for inviting them to make a choice that could never be honoured, and do some serious grown-up work on figuring out exactly what the
real problems around our membership of the EU are, and what the solutions might be, including if necessary renegotiating the terms of our membership.
But nobody in Government, let alone the Tory party, is going to have the integrity to make that kind of admission. So I guess we're stuck with this mess until it all falls apart. Whatever that ends up meaning.
