Rob Fawcett
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Does not democracy call for the voters to get what they voted for?

Did they vote for Brexit irrespective of whatever consequences, or did they vote for the outcomes they were promised would derive from Brexit?

It seems clear that the promised outcomes were bogus – most headline promises were disavowed within 48 hours of the result by the very people who made them. Even the foundational paradigm of British efficiency and competence versus EU bureaucratic haplessness has been promptly overturned by subsequent experience.

Thus it seems inevitable that Brexit will lead to bad outcomes and very likely that it will lead to remorse. However it is a natural consequence of social and cognitive psychology that there be an interregnum of ignorance and denial before this emerges. There are some among us who hope to minimise the damage by making the consequences of this decision apparent sooner than would otherwise be the case.

    Rob Fawcett

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