Daz Wright
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Your position is your position and that’s fine; I don’t agree with you being abused for having a position. At the end of the day you express opinion and everyone is entitled to agree or disagree with that. If you were implementing policy or aspiring to do so then I think some challenge would be valid, but not abuse.

I think there is a case, that despite the referendum result, then it can be opposed purely on the fact that the implementation will harm the most vulnerable. Anyone blindly supporting its implementation, without recognising the harm it will do, is doing a disservice to the most marginalised. The moral high ground of a barely functioning democracy, on top of a crashing economy will be a spurious point to those that have their lives turned upside down. Fine, respect the referendum but at every opportunity point out that both the Labour and the Conservative approach will hurt the weakest.

I think there is also an issue on referendum precedent. You, as with most commentators with an interest in a fairer electoral system, have not hidden from the inequity of the First Past the Post system. Surely by your own criteria there should be no more requests for electoral reform because that issue was settled by referenda?

Finally, that YouGov poll is nonsense. Anyone with any knowledge of polling will tell it is flawed to present two propositions in a single response. You never know which of the two propositions people are responding to. It’s regularly trawled out these days but it has methodological holes as big as your head.

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