Owen, I’m disappointed in you. Is this another example of your deciding; in careful moderate tones; to back the wrong horse yet again? I can still feel the horror at your back stabbing of Jeremy Corbyn after your ringing endorsement of him.This is NOT the time to lose our few championing voices to resignation and surrender. If you think it is the wrong thing for the majority, how about constructing arguments to persuade instead of capitulating to the ill-informed masses?
You say: ‘’Unfortunately there are many elections — let alone referendums — across the world (let alone this country) which are full of lies.’’ So that makes it alright then? And then that you’re convinced that ignoring ‘’ the referendum result would cause catastrophic, possibly irreversible damage to our democracy.’’ Let me correct that for you: this stupid referendum already HAS caused catastrophic damage. The person above who made the analogy about the family in a car driving over a cliff has it right.
Whether or not the argument would hold if the Faragists had had the same result is neither here nor there, pure speculation on your part. In any case, ask yourself WHY the results were so close: don’t you think it could be that the voters mostly thought it would never come to pass? That the majority of Brits should be held to ransome by 37% of the electorate who were lied-to, ill informed or uncaring* is frankly incomprehensible, and that you should now defend the Brexit argument is absolutely saddening. (And remember how many of us -o the irony- who live and work in EUrope weren’t even allowed to vote. We would have swung it to Remain comfortably, don’t doubt it!)
Using the gay argument is ridiculous and I’m sorry you’re being subjected to that kind of nonsense and btw, in point 6, I think you meant criminalisation not DEcriminalisation.
(*or thick or racist or little englanders, yes, why not accuse them? it wasn’t the remainers that brandished anti-immigration sentiments.)