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Devra should think again.  The EU has divided its citizens with uncontrolled immigration resulting in a "Jungle" on its border with the UK, produced disastrous Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies, forced us to live terrorists in our midst due to its bizarre "Human Right" laws, microchipping its citizens, whilst Germany has failed to control coal-burning and diesel emissions.  Its Eurozone is now firmly in recession.As for the "Will of the People has changed" it clearly has, but not in the way you suggest.  Less than half a million people marched in London, the wealthiest part of the UK, where Wandsworth comes third in a list of boroughs where people earn over £150,000pa.  These people are most likely to have signed a petition which only reached just over 5 million, whereas over 16 million people voted to remain at the ballot box, which indicates that around 11 million people may have changed their minds about remaining in a failing socialist experiment.It is fascinating to look at the paperwork from the last referendum on this subject in 1975, where those who lost the vote graciously accepted the will of the majority.  The government pamphlet, signed by Harold Wilson, gave no indication of the huge numbers of migrants that would flood the continent, after Maastricht in 1992.There are demonstrations (not reported in the media) all over Europe, from Athens to Brussels itself, where the police and militia have fired on their own citizens in Spain and France.There was no Putney Forum in 1975, nor any social media, and I cannot help wondering whether if we had had a news blackout after 23rd June 2016, we would all have been a great deal happier.  It is all forms of media, that have conspired to whip up and divide the people, with democracy being replaced by creeping totalitarianism.As always, the Socialist view, whatever the numbers may demonstrate, shouts loudest from the moral high ground.

Chantal Blake-Milton ● 2788d

“Mike, the bottom line is that a majority of MPs believe there is no form of Brexit which will make us better off. So they genuinely believe they are acting in the best interests of their constituents. And they are our elected representatives not delegates.”Jonathan I agree with you here.  Yet please explain why they voted to allow a referendum and trigger article 50.  Parliament is a total joke currently!I tend to think as things stand the only two sensible options on the table are either remain (any of the brino suggestions tend to be worse than remaining as they entail following rules and in the case of the customs union outsourcing our market access with no say) and typically as with May’s proposals mean no get out clause for the future, or leave with no deal.If this were to be the case then we would need a referendum and a parliament committed to upholding the result unlike the last one.  It’s hard to trust a parliament of 80% or so remainers on this - we would need to reform away from fptp to pr to get true representative government.  Remember in 2015 UKIP won 12.5% of the vote with 0% of the MPs whereas the snp with 5% of the vote gained some 8% of the MPs.  This is not representative and along with other things goes some way to explain peoples disillusion and anger at politics.I think the worse that can happen now is that we get the softest of brexits as MPs who have blocked Brexit try to cravenly pretend that remaining in the Eu in all but name with no say is delivering “the will of the people”.  If we had had a general election in 2017 under the current system with one party for leave and one for remain then I believe some 70-80% of MPs elected would have been leave.As it was both main parties committed to exit and have both reneged.Please do t think we can now just stay or brino without serious unrest in the country - as passionate as the EU fanatics feel about it, there are just as many on the other side who have been extremitised by the past 2 years I would say.

Mike Warman ● 2787d