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Originally Posted by jaxie
It's not being afraid of another vote it's that the idea of keeping voting until you get the answer the losing side want is democratically abhorrant. It's wrong and had remain won the original vote I would still think it would be wrong to run the referendum again. When we have a general election we don't keep going and going, we accept the outcome, even when it isn't what we voted for and a new government is formed.
If you did that in sports no team or individual would ever win. England would play eternally for a cup they can never win. Oh yeah they do that anyway..
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Totally agree with this - it's about not giving out the wrong message to disgruntled voters, which there will always be, thinking if they make enough fuss they can get a public vote overturned. It would be the start of a slippery slope.
In the unlikely scenario that the remainers won the second vote it would undoubtedly be contested by the leavers in exactly the same way the remainers have done with the original vote. People could and would still plead ignorance as the whole thing is complicated. How could a third vote be refused when a second hadn't. Best of three would be the only fair and democratic route in that scenario.