Originally Posted by
Burney
No. You are demonstrably wrong. Democratic politics can happen contrary to the wishes of the demos, but that can only create an unstable status quo. This country's Parliamentary history is littered with examples where ground has been given to public sentiment in order to avoid a more cataclysmic backlash. The mistake in recent years has been to assume that such concessions are no longer necessary because consensus - or at least equilibrium - has been achieved. This thinking led to the 'there is no alternative' mindset of which EU membership has been such a key aspect. This complacency is why Brexit has come as such a nasty shock. It has shown that everything is far from settled and that there are monumental political battles still to be fought. The status quo ante is not coming back.
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