The word democracy describes a political system. "In a democratic
country, all eligible citizens have the right to participate, either
directly or indirectly, in making the decisions that affect them."
So Cameron said 'let the people vote in a referendum'
The people voted and which ever way you look at it it was close with leave just winning.
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- Leave the EU 17,410,742
- Remain a member of the EU 16,141,241
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Was this a democratic vote - Sort of - if the campaign to leave or remain had been fact checked, based on sound knowledge and correctly policed then yes it would have been democratic - but it wasn't.
One of the major criticisms of the Brexit campaign was the number of misleading or false claims.
Both sides were accused of running deeply flawed campaigns with spurious reports such as money flooding back to the NHS in the event of Brexit.
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Vote Leave broke electoral law and British democracy is shaken. Vote Leave has been fined £61,000 after being found guilty of breaking electoral law during the Brexit campaign....
Members from different political parties joined together to create a 'dream list' of how the UK would be out of the EU - financially, ethically, and morally and people bought into the dream.
Remainers
could only fight for what there was/is - difficult when the people are
feeling disengaged especially after years of austerity and terrorism.
So what is Brexit? That really is the million dollar question. Brexit is different things to different people.
Its:
- 'going back to how things were before'
- 'less migration'
- 'being great again'
- 'more control'
- 'Free trade'
- 'more money for the NHS'
- 'prosperity'
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problem is these are mostly immeasurable things - if everyone wants
something different from Brexit can it really deliver. Will the leavers
ever be happy with Brexit?
If you look at two years of Brexit, time wasted on elections solely to gain more control (less democracy),
poor negotiations, a 'deal' that quite frankly a child could have
written in less time and that pleases no-one, its difficult to see how
anyone will or can ever be satisfied that 'Brexit has been delivered'
In my opinion - it is democratic to have a second clear well articulated referendum, with a proper fact based campaign (or no campaign) - a democratic vote - and yes I believe the option to revoke Article 50 should be included within that vote.
More information:
wiki/Campaigning_in_the_2016_
www.independent.co.uk