LONDON (AP) — Britain’s prime minister has again spoken out against calls for a second referendum on Britain’s decision to split with the European Union.
Theresa May wrote in the Sunday Telegraph that it would be a “gross betrayal of our democracy” to have another vote.
She said “millions came out to have their say” in the June 2016 vote that set Brexit in motion.
Her embattled government has faced increasingly strident calls for another vote once the terms of Britain’s future relations with the EU are known.
The prime minister used the column to defend her “Chequers proposal” that would maintain some ties with the EU, and said she won’t be pushed around by EU negotiators.
Britain is expected to leave the EU in March and enter a transition phase.
This position makes no sense at all.
The first vote was the betrayal of democracy, because of lies (by Farage, et. al.), Russian interference and money.
The people want another vote—why force them to a result they do not now want?
I hope the covfefe staffer wrote it, but I have no confidence that’s the case.
“Betrayal” is not the word to describe sobering up and realizing you’ve pulled a disaster down on your heads. If you have a feel-good vote that you belatedly realize is a practical catastrophe and you’ve got a chance of a do-over, take it, Brits. We sadder but wiser colonials think you should trust us on this.
It is anti democracy to have a vote??? yeah that makes a lot of sense.
“Dammit we lied, cheated and stole to get the result we wanted! We’re not going to have a ‘do over’ now that our grand plan is blowing up in our faces and the people have learned of our corruption and malfeasance!!! That just ‘undemocratic’”!