Brexit or Breaksit?

[Dartz]

Nobody expected it to win. Not even the people who voted for it thinking it was a vote against the Government. The UK has no history of people's referendums. They've no institutional memory of how to do it. There's no concept that Voting on a thing has Consequences.

Ireland's had referenda on the constitution turn on a mickey's drop of votes (The 15th amendment was one with a margin of 0.5%) - but everyone was satisfied with the result. We've had referenda that were re-run - we took two stabs at two EU treaties, rejecting them until important points were clarified and the government stopped explaining it as 'go on and trust us', the 1th above was the second attempt after a previous one in the 60's, and we took three full goes to overturn the constitutional ban on abortion, overturning another referendum in the 80's that added it to the constituion in the first place.

There is another referendum planned for May, to amend the 15th amendment.

Going to the people more than once is not a sign of weakness in democracy. It's how it's supposed to work. Is this what you want? Are you sure?

But more than that - we've never had a result that left a significant amount of the population screaming and begging for it to stop. 1 in 12 residents of the UK have signed a petition to call this off. That's an utterly insane number. It's the largest petition in history. That's more than the population of Ireland.