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@triasic wrote:

You are obviously much more well-read than I am in American history, so no point in me saying anything else on the subject!   I bow to your superior knowledge!

But, the referendum has been held. 

It was made abundantly clear during the campaign that the decision would be final!

The majority voted to leave the EEC!

If the majority had voted to remain, with  only a few hundred more votes than the leavers, and the leavers demanded another referndum, the cry would have gone up "the majority want to remain, the decision is final!"

So really, if you wanted to remain, it is a case of "hard cheese," we are leaving!

 

Is it your hope that leaving will be a disaster for Britain, so that you can say "I told you so?"

Or are you going to work hard to ensure that we prosper?

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Not at all - I really do hope that we get favourable terms with Europe on our exit and that we do manage to make a success as an independent nation and don't suffer economically.

That having been said it is foolish not to recognise that there may well be problems ahead and I don't accept either that "the decision is final".  The government have a duty to follow the will of the people and should be negotiating wholeheartedly to achieve that. But no decision is ever "final - if it were we wouldn't have had the latest one.

Let me ask - if negotiations result in a Norway type deal where we remain members of the single market, accept the continued free movement of labour and makes British industry subject to EU regulations would you accept that or demand a further referendum?

PS - American history is fascinating and well worth reading up on.