#Brexit are you a true democrat ? (democracy can only work with "losers consent")

Our history is full of heroic battles to establish our much vaunted and admired democratic system. Our nation has been seen as a bulwark in support of a democratic system that has been taken as an example of enlightened government. Everyone thought the democratic system was so embedded in our society in would never be undermined.

Think again. The UK is on the brink. Our system is threatened by duplicitous unscrupulous people.

I am going to try to really get back to basics to explain.

First our system as it stands :-

• Everyone 18 and over has a vote. Every vote is worth the same - universal suffrage.
• Every 5 years approx 650 MP's (Members of Parliament) are elected by the people to represent them in Parliament.
• MP's stand on a manifesto which most often is a Party manifesto.
• The Party that can command a majority in Parliament (House of Commons) (has the most elected MP's) forms the Government and the leader that party acts as the Prime Minister.
• Under our system "the people" delegate to their constituent MP to look after their best interests inaccordance with the manifesto pledges made, but also utilising the MP's experience and conscience. This principle is often referred to as "representative democracy". Some MP's emphasise they are representing the best interests of their whole community not just the people that voted for them.
• In this period Parliament is the supreme power - sovereign.
• At the end of the 5 year Parliament (or sometimes before) Parliament is dissolved - there is a General Election when a new Parliament is elected.

This is our day to day representative Parliamentary system - Parliament is sovereign until the General Election - when the people are sovereign again - until a new Parliament is formed. 

However now and again within a Parliament - Parliament votes to give power back to the people through a REFERENDUM. Referendums are rare in the UK. They are used to determine what the people want in respect of a fundamental question - usually a binary one.

The Brexit referendum was one such - should the UK remain a member of the EU - yes or no. As we all know the people voted No.

Now this is where the trouble started.

What should have happened?

What should have happened is everyone acknowledged the referendum result and allowed it to be implemented. That is the simple truth - the democratic imperative.That is how democracy works. The losers should have given their consent for the decision of the people to be implemented even though it was not what they wanted.

What has actually happened. Many losers did not accept the result and have worked either directly or indirectly (they state they accept the referendum result) to undermine it ever since. Many MP's have simply been motivated by political gain.

Here are some of the things that have happened AFTER the result (not before) :

• Some MP's claim the result of the referendum was advisory only and that Parliament is sovereign. It is for Parliament to decide what actually happens. Technically they are correct but that was NEVER stated during the referendum. On the contrary everyone went into the referendum believing the referendum result would be sovereign and that it would be implemented.
• MP's and their supporters who didn't want to leave started to claim the referendum never stated how we should leave - that Brexit meant different things to different people - and therefore they could agitate for a nominal Brexit - a BRINO - Brexit in name only. The objective reality was it was clearly stated (and accepted) in the referendum debate prior to the actual vote that a vote to leave meant to take back full control of our laws, money and borders and to be able to trade freely on our own terms with the rest of the world. Anyone disputing this is being duplicitous. 
• Remainers started to claim the people who voted leave had been duped in the referendum debate or worse didn't know what they were voted for. They claimed false claims had been made by leave supporters and that leave supporting groups had broken spending rules. This enabled them to justify to themselves that they could seek to overturn the referendum result. The objective reality. Remain ran "project fear". Remain vastly out spent Leave ( the Gov't alone spent £10m on a remain leaflet.). It is also a very slippery slope for democracy when people start claiming they know better than their fellow electors or their fellow electors were in effect not clever enough to exercise their vote properly. 
• Remain MP's started to argue while they respected the referendum result they would not implement it if it meant their electors would be economically worse off. They started to rerun the referendum arguments. Objective reality 1) some were cynically using this argument to prevent Brexit actually happening 2) it is not for them to say Brexit was only about economic wealth. It was clearly argued in the referendum debate that there were economic risks to leaving. Clearly many voted to take back control - to regain our self determination - our freedom - and that any economic downturn was a price they were prepared to pay.
• The Labour Party (because their supporters were half leave half remain) decided to argue it was possible to respect the referendum result but remain within a customs union with the EU. This is duplicitous and results in a BRINO (Brexit in name only) ie we nominally leave but do not repatriate our self determination or be able to trade freely with the rest of the world on our own terms. It means they have not respected the leave decision in a meaningful way.
• Remainers started to argue that the Government should take into account the views of the 48% who voted remain not just the 52% who voted leave. This is nonsense. It was a binary question - leave or stay. Half leave is the worst of all worlds. An analogy. The train track runs north to south. You can catch a train in either direction but you cannot go in two directions at once. A compromise would be to go up a siding - which suits no one. The whole point of the Brexit Referendum was to settle a binary question - in or out. Everyone understood that at the time of the referendum.
• At an early stage the May led government rightly stated "no deal" is better than a bad deal. This acknowledged the UK was in a negotiation with the EU and the EU quite naturally and understandably would want to negotiate a deal most favourable to them. As in any negotiation the other side must believe you would be prepared to walk away otherwise they have no incentive to compromise. This is basic and obvious. Unbelievably the Letwin Benn bill - the Surrender Bill as Boris Johnson rightly refers to it prevents us leaving without a deal! - so what is the incentive for the EU to give us a fair deal? There isn't. They are hoping they can drag out the process to prevent us leaving.
• What should have happened from the outset - the democratic thing to do - would have been for all politicians to get behind the Government in a united front to get the best possible deal from the EU. What some have actually done is form a 5th column - they have conspired with the EU against the interests of the UK. Their hope is they can prevent the UK leaving. They have encouraged the EU not to make concessions and argued delay will give them more chance of overturning the leave decision. There is no other word for it - they are TRAITORS.
• Remainers talk about a "Tory Brexit". Brexit was not a Tory construct. What the Tory ERG support is the proper Brexit the people voted for. Everyone else are letting the public and our democracy down.
• Remainers have called for a second referendum - cynically referred to as if the people are stupid as a "peoples vote" or a confirmatory ballot! Of course they want remain as an option. They claim this will settle the issue - best of 3? The Liberal Democrats say they will never accept leave. We all know their objective is to stop Brexit.
• Throughout our remainer parliament has done everything it can to delay and hinder the proper implementation of the Brexit Referendum leave decision. They believe the longer they can drag it out the greater the chance it will not happen.
• Boris Johnson has now PM -  determined to leave - to deliver the democratic imperative. Remainers rattled -  are now playing dirty politics and they will do or say just about anything to try to undermine him. The public are not stupid. They can see what is happening.

So this is where we are in the UK. Remainers are battling to keep us in the EU. It seems there is no level to which they will not stoop.

The cost of all this is likely to be our democratic system - the thin thread that holds our diverse society together. It amazes me that remainers think they can overthrow Brexit - and that Leavers - the people that won the referendum will just stand by and let it happen - and thereafter our democracy will revert to being intact. That will not happen.

If we do not leave - if the democratic imperative is not upheld things are going to get very nasty in the UK - and we will never again be able to look the world in the eye and seriously advocate our democratic system - because we would have trashed it. Remainers should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. The damage they are doing to our society is truly unforgiveable.