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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Sheer stubbornness? Sticking with a bad decision just because "that's the decision you made" is a really bad idea... On any level, individual or national. It is completely legitimate for the country to have collectively had a rethink. I wouldn't advocate the government going against the result, or "vote after vote until you get your way" as seems to be some people's concern, but having a second referendum to gauge whether the country still feels the same after the dust has settled or if there has been some major shift in opinion is completely legitimate. And sensible.

It still amounts to over-turning a vote if some are opposed to it. What happens if we do and many people are still unhappy and rightly feel they have been conned and start wanting another vote- best of three. It is ridiculous. If we had been told two from the start maybe, but to simply impose another to change the vote is taking liberties and amounts to an undemocratic piss-take.