Government Petition Website: EU Referendum Rules triggering a 2nd EU Referendum

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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on June 27, 2016 at 18:49

I found this point thought provoking, especially beacuse the outers keep banging on about democracy in action:

What we do know is that, in practice, most countries require a “supermajority” for nation-defining decisions, not a mere 51%. There is no universal figure like 60%, but the general principle is that, at a bare minimum, the majority ought to be demonstrably stable. A country should not be making fundamental, irreversible changes based on a razor-thin minority that might prevail only during a brief window of emotion.

Here: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/brexit-democratic-fail...

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