Quote Originally Posted by Wheeze View Post
The best thing I have heard on this whole issue was a phone interview with Michael Heseltine conducted by Steve Nolan on 5 live late one Sunday.
Nolan was doing his best to unpick Hezza's postion as a confirmed remainer along the lines of 'the people have spoken, why are you, as a politician of the party in charge of brexit, trying so hard to overturn the peoples choice?'. The answer was simple and direct. He stated that it was always the job of a politician to overturn the peoples choice...that was the whole job of a political party in opposition....so why should this be any different?. A good answer I thought.

The one thing that puzzles me is why was there not a precondition that a change would only be triggered by a sensible majority, say 60:40? As it is, a questionable majority of a few percent is always going to lead to rancour and discord.
Aye, run it again but set a sensible majority.
I have an issue here with Hezza.

When we have a General Election, the political parties analyse the result. Those who have done well get the chance to implement their programme, sometimes in Coalition.
Those that don't do well tend to lick their wounds, analyse where they went wrong, they usually blame the electorate for not understanding their message, and eventually come back with a refreshed offering.

eg. When the Tories lost in 1997, they went through Hague, IDS and Howard before they ended up (unfortunately) with Dave.
The offering by the Cameron led Tories in 2010 and 2015 was quite different from the previous incumbents.

But with the Referendum result, Hezza, Farron, Clegg, etc are tryinhg to overturn it and undermine it before it has even been implimented.

I don't remember those that opposed devolution immediately campaigning to block it or reverse it, or have another referendum, or ask what sort of devolution the electorate wanted as they couldn't all want the same thing.

They just got on with it and set up the assemblies with powers devolved as agreed by the Commons.

With Brexit they should just get on with it and then once out, I think parties have the freedom to take whatever position they want.