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24-07-2016, 10:24 PM
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How many referendums do you have to have to get to democracy.
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25-07-2016, 12:01 AM
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The Swiss system seems to work.
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25-07-2016, 07:06 AM
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I don't entirely agree that there should have been a referendum. This being because there are probably lots of people in UK who won't have weighed up the facts before voting. Some/many votes will have come from gut feelings rather than being intelligently worked out.

This is kind of lucky for those who gave the facts months of thought before voting to leave the EU. Those who voted on gut feelings without a thought about detailed implications will almost certainly have swayed the vote in favour of leaving.
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25-07-2016, 07:17 AM
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You seem to think logic can be applied to a situation, where none exists, facts, where aren't any, in such circumstance, the Gut is as reliable, as any other reasoning method.
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25-07-2016, 07:28 AM
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You seem to think logic can be applied to a situation, where none exists, facts, where aren't any, in such circumstance, the Gut is as reliable, as any other reasoning method.
Referendums are a situation where logic should apply and some won't have applied it. A Gut vote without thought? That would be no basis for a vote on such a permanent future in my opinion.
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25-07-2016, 07:33 AM
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It can hardly be said that our politicians apply logic to every decision they make on our behalf.
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25-07-2016, 07:35 AM
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Is there only one kind of Logic, what if the facts the "Thought Out" decision is based on, are illogical?
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25-07-2016, 07:37 AM
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Politicians will never please us all but I think they are much better informed than some to decide on this issue. I think it should have been a governmental vote rather than a referendum.
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25-07-2016, 07:39 AM
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To arrive at a result that suits your Logic?
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25-07-2016, 07:43 AM
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It could be reverse Logic, a populace is offered a vote, to get a result that the offerer wanted, minus any flack that would have been attracted, if the result was self imposed, maybe.
 
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