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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

A YouGov poll found 70%of Brits just want to "get on with it", there's no need for a second ref.

An informal poll showing that people are sick of politics, elections and votes is in no way any indication that the national opinion hasn't changed. I'm not even saying it HAS changed; just that this is not evidence that it hasn't.

People want to "just get on with it" because of rapidly increasing political apathy.

A double referendum should have been the plan from the start to be honest. From before the first vote. An initial vote to gauge public interest in leaving, followed by seriously looking into the practicalities of leaving if the vote was anywhere over, say, 40% leave and then a final vote a year or 18 months later to gauge final opinion.

In our case the first vote was taken when there was barely any information available on what Brexit actually would entail. People didn't know what they were really voting on, on either side. Again I'm not saying the result would necessarily be any different now, just that the first poll - and what followed with our internal politics - was more than a bit of a shambles, and what we're left with is a government effectively "winging it" through the biggest political shift in three generations. But "we should just get on with it woteva", I guess?