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s0nicfan posted...

I don't know that Labour would have been able to stop Brexit, Putting it to another referendum seemed like the "sneaky" way to cancel it, but given how this election went it might not have even come to a remain win. At the very least, all the markets rallying on the news of the results and the spike in value of the sterling is evidence that business at least prefers certainty over more waffling. But I also have more faith that the UK will be fine in the long run. They survived multiple world wars and existed just fine before the EU. There are plenty of other countries outside the EU that do business with them just fine, so I don't see brexit quite as the country-ending catastrophe as some do.

As a remainer (still), I'm not sure even a remain win and/or the revocation of Article 50 would have put the genie back in the bottle. That wouldn't stop a Brexit supporting party (i.e. the Tories) putting Brexit in their manifesto to attract the significant number of Brexit supporters still out there. If the 2016 referendum can be ignored, then so can a subsequent one. Unless it's legally binding, but that would kick up a massive stink (if it could get through parliament). I don't know how that would work legally, since future governments can't be bound and the country essentially forced to remain in the EU in perpetuity.

Well, we don't need to think about that now lol.