Nigel Farage wants second referendum if Remain campaign scrapes narrow win

Daily Mirror ^ | May 2016 | Kevin Maguire

[Cronos]

Nigel Farage warns today he would fight for a second referendum on Britain in Europe if the remain campaign won by a narrow margin next month.

The Ukip leader said a small defeat for his leave camp would be “unfinished business” and predicted pressure would grow for a re-run of the 23 June ballot.

Farage told the Mirror: “In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it.”

The threat by a veteran of the Europhobic struggle to pull Britain out of the European Union illustrates why David Cameron is desperate for a decisive result to avoid “neverendum” uncertainty in the country and Tory ranks.

[Cronos]

Blast from the past. The referendum was so close that it was bound to not close the fissures but make divisions WORSE. And it has delivered on that.

[Boomer]

But why post 3 year old news?

[trebb]

Too funny - calls it a “blast from the past” to tie history with today’s reality and you ask that question? Hint: he actually stated why he posted 3 year old news.....

[Cronos]

To show how the referendum was so close that Leave thought they would lose and were preparing for a second referendum.

The British electorate are and were not decided. It has led to a poisonous atmosphere where each side calls the other names. Horrifying

[Dagnabitt]

What a collapse over the past century: From a global empire to an Islam-infested miserable province of the EU that arrests its subjects for social-media thought crimes. Stick a fork in it,

[Boomer]

If you say so. I can see more of the same BS from British politics. Is that what you mean? Are you surprised?

[Cronos]

That seems the inevitable fate of empires. Assyria was powerful from 2000 bc until its destruction circa 700BC (At the same time it fell, Rome was being founded).

Babylon and Sumer were the fonts of world civilization, then mow they are dirty backwaters.

Athens is a shadow of its glory and Sparta is a jumble village. Rome became a plaything of Germanic peoples until now it ia a museum piece.

England fall was inevitable.

[fortheDeclaration]

The win was a solid one and the voice of the People should be followed. It is the Governments refusal to implement the policy that is causing the division.

[Cronos]

It was a win.

It was not a “solid” win. As Farage himself pointes out, a win of 52:48 would be too close and he would have demanded a second referendum.

The government of Theresa May has a plan to leave the EU but it seems to have been rejected

[trebb]

Not surprised at all...the occasional “recycle” of old stories helps remind us that many of our predictions are coming true....the Dems are always trying to rewrite history...nothing wrong with actually revisiting it once in a while.

[Cronos]

it was a win, but by no means could it be called a "solid" win when the victory was

1. 52:48

2. Opposed by 2 out of 4 nations in the UK (the British Union calls itself a union of 4 nations: Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland) - which compete separately in different games etc.

You say "the voice of the People" - the slim majority voice said "leave" but the referendum was so badly worded by Cameron that it didn't say "leave, how.." -- The referendum was an advisory vote, only. The ballot paper did not make any reference to “deal or no deal” and no one could have made a voice of "no deal"

No-one was even talking about no-deal in 2016. Most politicians were saying that we would remain within the Single Market and the Customs Union. All the no-deal stuff has only become common currency more recently - when it has become apparent to everyone concerned just how very difficult it will be to undo four decades of integration and common legislation.

What policy do you expect the government to implement? how would you walk out of a union? Let's give you a parallel, not exactly the same example - if tomorrow California wanted to leave the union, and it was allowed, how would it walk away?

You need to make arrangements and even more so, assume north-eastern californians had been fighting for some time to be part of Nevada and there was peace when there was a notice that there would be no borders, a treaty that California signed. How do you take care of that?

It's a very complicated matter, not just walk away

it could be made simpler by cutting off Northern Ireland

[Lurker]

“The British electorate are and were not decided.“

Wrong.

The British electorate decided 52-48 to leave. Anything else is dissembling. It’s akin to saying that since President Trump won the Electoral College but not the popular vote we should redo the last Presidential election.

And it’s just as ridiculous.

Brexit won.

You lost.

Get on with it.

L

[fortheDeclaration]

I think a 4pt win in a national election is a solid win, not just a win. It will be difficult to unravel the UK from the EU but not impossible. What is being underestimated is the ability of the free market to make adjustments. The difference between the UK and the EU is that the UK is a sovereign nation and joined the EU which had a provision to leave if it decided to do so. There is no such provision in the U.S. Constitution. The UK needs to break free of the socialist EU and regain it’s sovereign status. It’s position is more akin to how the colonies were being treated in 1776, being taxed and ruled without any real say in the matter.

[fortheDeclaration]

Typical Leftist thinking, if you don’t like the results of an election, ignore it.

[Boomer]

Okay, I can see that point, but I’m not sure this is actual news to anyone. We all know how the left operates from seeing them do it in America for over a century. (Many centuries if you want to really drill down) With 6 out of the 15 posts being me questioning this or those trying to justify it; there doesn’t appear to be much interest in going over what we already know.

Top that off with this issue being a UK one and not ours (directly); is there really much more we can do at this point other than wait to see how it plays out? If there’s something we can do, other than give them our support which we have been doing, then I’m all for doing it.