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RE: Brexit Shambles and My Opinion
This is all down to the stupidity of the previous prime minister, David Cameron. He might of felt like he had to give people a referendum but he should of said that it needed at least 60% of the vote for us to leave the EU. 52% almost exactly divides the country. He knew the majority of MPs want to remain and anything less than 60% makes it easy to push for a second referendum.
I don't agree with referendums. We have a parliamentary democracy. We can vote at least every 5 years. That's how these big decisions need to be made. If we have another referendum, it will be a farce.
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Also what do you put on the second referendums?
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The sensible option would be to have three questions and use the alternative vote system, so that wont happen :) The obvious options are remain, leave EU but stay in a customs union and leave both EU and customs union. We could all vote for our preference and second choice. The option with the least votes is rejected and then the second preferences count.
Problem is it would be so split it would be hard to get a proper majority and so the MPs would argue it's not Democratic.
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AV ensures a majority https://www.britannica.com/topic/alternative-vote
Only problem is that the UK lost a referendum on the AV vote :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum
2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum
The United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum, also known as the UK-wide referendum on the Parliamentary voting system was held on Thursday 5 May 2011 (the same date as local elections in many areas) in the United Kingdom (UK) to choose the method of electing MPs at subsequent general elections as part of the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement drawn up after the 2010 general election which had resulted in the first hung parliament since February 1974 and also indirectly in the aftermath of the 2009 expenses scandal under the provisions of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 and was the first national referendum to be held under provisions laid out in the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.
The referendum concerned whether or not to replace the present "first-past-the-post" system with the "alternative vote" (AV) method and was the first national referendum to be held across the whole of the United Kingdom in the twenty first century. The proposal to introduce AV was overwhelmingly rejected by 67.9% of voters on a national turnout of 42%.
This was only the second UK-wide referendum to be held (after the EC referendum back in 1975) and is to date the only UK-wide referendum to be held on an issue not related to the European Economic Community (Common Market) or European Union and was also the first UK-wide referendum to be overseen by the Electoral Commission.
Yeah it got slaughtered with such a low turnout
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