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New UK trade deals would not compensate for loss of single market membership

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Re: Really ....

"None of the idiots who wanted to leave are now around to actually see through what they wanted".

Translation: although a significant majority of UK voters chose, in the largest turn-out of any UK vote ever, to Leave the EU... unfortunately it turns out that most of our political leaders and representatives wanted to Remain. Although we had just had a General Election the year before.

Hmmmmm. That seems to demonstrate conclusively that our electoral system reliably produces leaders and governments that not only do not reflect the popular will; they actively ignore it and often do the very opposite of what the people want.

Just as, in the USA (the home of perfect democracy) repeated polls show that the Congress as a whole has a satisfaction rating of about 13% among US voters... just one year after elections which saw most members of Congress re-elected!

Lastly, I don't think it's very respectful to refer to a majority of the British electorate as "idiots". On the contrary, I think it may be rather foolish to ignore the 1,000 years and more of British sovereignty during most of which this country proved itself not only independently viable, but one of the world's most successful nations.

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