Some points that I think you don’t cover: I have been told that the decision to make the referendum 50/50 — a simple majority - was because it was an advisory referendum. Now you’re saying that all referenda in the UK are advisory. So why couldn’t it be set at the usual level of a 60/40 majority, as is usual when a highly complex issue of national economic importance is being questioned? Secondly, although I support the Labour Party’s backing for the referendum, (because to do anything less would open it up to accusations of acting undemocratically), in my opinion the red lines that Starmer and Corbyn have set out are not negotiable with the EU. There will come a time when there will have to be another referendum on ‘the deal’, because when we voted, many or dare I say it, most people knew very little about what the outcome would really be in economic, social and political terms (apart from all the lies).
