If there is a second referendum ...

POPPYOSCAR

All I can say is that both our children in their early twenties voted leave.

Thrugelmir

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

All I can say is that both our children in their early twenties voted leave.

Likewise my son. An entirely independent decision.

POPPYOSCAR

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Likewise my son. An entirely independent decision.

Yes.

Try telling them what to do!

A sad thing is she dare not say at work how she voted because her boss is very vocal about being a remainer and would make her life a misery.

David_Evans

My opinion is it all depends what the choices of question were.

If 'no deal' / 'hard Brexit' was on the ballot paper it could win. If that happened I reckon we'd see GBP hit about 80-90c (ie USD 0.80 - 0.90).

But a three - way question could split the votes - so hard to predict.

I think a 'Remain' win would see GBP rise to about USD 1.50

Obviously, since the 2016 referendum, the Fed has started to QT / slightly raise rates a bit - so GBP will probably never return to pre-2008 type levels.

Just a guess....!

David_Evans

Regarding the social side of the issue;

Most people who bring up the topic tell me they voted leave - but they seem to say it in a way that implies they assume I also voted leave. I don't know why.

gfplux

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Yes.

Try telling them what to do!

A sad thing is she dare not say at work how she voted because her boss is very vocal about being a remainer and would make her life a misery.

Luckily she must work in a business that will and is totally unaffected by Brexit.
She can be happy her job is secure.

MobileSaver

Crashy_Time wrote: »

There isn`t going to be another vote because that makes a mockery of our democracy

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Can`t find it. Maybe you believe in just having vote after vote until the vote goes your way? Not practical or right in a democracy, sorry.

The public exercising their power by voting is the very definition of Democracy. To say another vote would make a mockery of democracy is perverse to the extreme; the irony, of course, is that it's the Leavers who are dead-set against another vote who are really making a mockery of democracy

ben501

MobileSaver wrote: »

The public exercising their power by voting is the very definition of Democracy.

I think you'll find it's just part of the definition. There's also the part about the result of said vote being enacted.


Remind me, when did that happen?

Herzlos

ben501 wrote: »

I think you'll find it's just part of the definition. There's also the part about the result of said vote being enacted.


Remind me, when did that happen?

Can you point me to a definition of democracy that mentions the reliance on the outcome being enacted first?

Because there's no mention of such in the Cambridge dictionary, Oxford dictionary, Miriam Webster or on dictionary.com.

MobileSaver

ben501 wrote: »

I think you'll find it's just part of the definition. There's also the part about the result of said vote being enacted.

Unless you haven't read a newspaper or seen the news on TV for the last two and a half years then you will know that the result is being enacted.

Regardless, I've never seen a definition of democracy that stipulates you cannot have another vote the very next day if circumstances dictate; this straw man argument that we have to Leave before another vote is just something cooked up by Leavers because they're terrified another vote would not go their way.