What comes next for desperate Remainers?
THE assertion by Margaret Phelps of Penarth recently in the Western Mail that 63% of the electorate did not vote for Brexit in the referendum is a total distortion of the truth.
No democracy can count in those citizens who choose not to vote. Ms Phelps has not only added them in but assumed that if they had voted, they would have voted to Remain. On what evidence does she base this ludicrous statement? How many governments would have been elected in the past if those people who failed to vote were also counted as having voted for the opposing party? Precious few.
To lump non-voters in with the people who voted to Remain only goes to show how desperate Remainers are now getting. This is evidenced by the increasingly shrill campaign to get a second referendum – despite the fact that people were clearly told that the referendum was a one-off event and that whatever they decided would be implemented by the government.
The EU’s favourite trick when any referendum is held which produces the wrong result as far as it is concerned is to press for a second one or even a third until the right result is achieved. Will people fall for this con trick?
If we do hold a second referendum which produces a majority for Remain, will we then decide to do a best of three so that the two results don’t cancel each other out? Where will it end?
Remainers are showing themselves to be more and more anti-democratic, including those MPs who were happy to vote for a referendum in the first place because, as part of an elite living inside the Westminster bubble, they were confident that they would win. The result was a huge shock to them. No doubt, had they realised how a majority of those people who voted felt they would never have agreed to it in the first place. Jayne Isaac Maesteg been in business for 30 years and doesn’t need any lessons on how to do business from “Remainers”. The response to that of course is that during his time in business he’s been essentially operating in a “Common Market” since 1973 and a “single market” since 1992. A hard Brexit would mean he’d been entering an environment of which he has no experience and which will be more harsh than he’s ever experienced.
We were also treated on Newsnight to an MP with zero experience in the sector telling a food industry leader he was talking nonsense. You really couldn’t make this stuff up.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, I notice, stated recently that the benefits of Brexit would be felt in 50 years’ time. The honourable member for the 19th century has become the honourable member for the 2060s.
I’m sure the good people of Ebbw Vale voted knowingly for this. As Keynes said: “In the long run we’re all dead.” Dr Robert Morgan Efail Isaf