We all took part in the Brexit referendum, either by voting or by expressing an opinion on the matter to someone. A lot of us are still talking about the initial choice. We were given a choice and we as a nation voted to leave the EU. It was close, a massive amount of people wanted to stay. This has made it tricky to navigate the political waters between the two islands of the British public. True, one is slightly larger than the other, but even within there is evidence of fighting.
We elect politicians to think about statecraft and administration because we as the general public need people to do this for us. We, on the whole, are not qualified to do these jobs. We may have had a football team to support, Britain or Europe, and we all showed which one we prefer. But abstract reasons like sovereignty and making our own decisions in the world don't directly equate into paperwork. Okay, so we're no longer obliged to follow EU rules thus regaining our individuality on the scene, but if we want to talk to the EU in political terms, we have to respect their rules anyway.
The idea of asking the people to vote on the final Brexit deal is preposterous. What do we really know? Most of us vote on emotion and not educated reason. We can learn exactly what the deal means for all people involved, fiscal, social, public, private, and everything else, and make a well-informed choice but if we put it to everyone, can we expect the entire nation to go ahead and do their homework? Not really. We would probably get a result that doesn't represent the true desire of the people to live in a stable, secure, and economically viable nation.
The people with the know-how to get the deal done in the way it needs to be are the politicians given the job of doing it. Not only are they elected representatives, they're given the extra role of their office. They have leagues of civil servants behind them making sure they know everything they need to know. Can't we just let them get on with it? If something unforeseen happens and the deal looks like it's not working, the government of the day can always look at individual parts or the whole thing again. We can even vote for parties who may want to put things like that on their manifesto.
Why ask the people to make a choice that most people don't know how to make? Please can we just leave it to the professionals, listen to the various ideas on election day, and make a choice based on the outcome of the process rather than a hypothesis.
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