Yeah, sure, although you can see how this time the situation is a little different. Previously, a court ruling protected London's status as a financial centre. This will clearly not apply any more and it would be thus very easy for the European regulators to do their worst, if they so choose.
So, the ones going to heaven soon, even without an excellent sound mind, especially many of them were less educated with higher education during their early age, will determine the future life of the youth, good or bad! Very democratic (perhaps in year 1000 - even marriage is arranged/assigned by parents)!?
Ugh....most of those that you describe are not voting. In fact those "senile" ones are not even sure when the election is or what year it is. LOL. Come on man. If someone put a gun to my head and forced me to take one extreme or another, either all 18 year olds or all 75 year olds to vote for the fate of anything, I'll take the old who have a little more perspective on things. I've talked to some 18 year olds over the years (I even use to be one myself) and to say I was downright frightened is an understatement. When you get older in life (and again, I'm in that group as well) you start to see things more clearly then you would have when you were younger when your goals in life were :getting laid, eating, getting laid, drinking, making as much money as possible and getting laid. Of course not always in that order. Older people (not all) but most have a sense of compassion and understanding that honestly only comes with time and personal pain to themselves.
If there is any comfort to you sir, remembered in 1965 when Singapore was forced out of the Malaysia Federation. Everyone predicted doom. Look at the differences between Malaysia and Singapore today. UK will survive and thrive when it can decide on its own future instead of taking orders from Brussel. I am not saying UK will not have difficulties but the Brits are a resourceful bunch and will find a better way going forward with the leash taken off. Regards,
I can see that you missed the irony of my previous post. Perhaps I should have been clearer. The point is that an arrogant proposal by one set of voters to change the rules because the outcome was not what they hoped for can be replaced by another equally ridiculous suggestion by other voters to skew the results back in their favour. Perhaps those with the higher education were not so smart after all because they knew the rules of the game and still lost?
Say, if the people living in London supposedly (after actual scientific survey) are much better educated, higher incomes, higher IQ, older age, more international travel experience, more expensive houses, higher personal assets, etc. , should they and their votes alone , due to their superior qualifications, decide the future of the UK? A better democratic system, I think! Joke only, of course!
" http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/25/politics/uk-referendum-regrexit/ London (CNN)From Brexit to #Regrexit -- an online petition demanding a second referendum on Britain's decision to leave the EU has passed 2 million signatures. " I really think the threshold for this kind of big issue and impacts, almost once in a lifetime, should be also voted simultaneously for whether, say just 2 options, 60% or 75% to decide the nation's future by this referendum! If no decision the 1st time, next time the 2 options might be changed to 60% or 70%. Then the 3rd time, 60% or 65%. Something like that! 50% is definitely not sufficient! imo
Yeah, I can see the merits of this point, but unfortunately for the Remain crowd it's too late now. Since all these old folk will be dead anyway in 10-15 years time we can have another referendum then to rejoin the EU. And that time we'll make sure that a 65-70% vote is required to change the status quo. Good suggestion to improve future referendums! If only those highly educated Londoners had been smart enough to think of that beforehand...
Perhaps a good lesson to the world leaders! Now economic uncertainty, instability and volatility for the following months for many countries, affecting others too! imo