[bayesian_horse]

Most people know what I meant. Many may even have figured out that it was a light-hearted jest about the UK's current - yes - constitutional and political struggles.

To be clear, yes they do have some kind of unwritten constitution.

I really don't like the system they arrived at, however they arrived at it. Voting is imbalanced, Elites are more hereditary than in most democracies, and it's harder to enforce what I believe of as Human rights (see surveillance etc). On top of that the political discussion and media is more nasty than most, also.

[enriquto]

> I really don't like the system they arrived at, however they arrived at it. Voting is imbalanced, ...

The election of representatives in the UK may be flawed and imbalanced, I agree. But in this case they held a referendum, which cannot in any case be considered as "flawed", the Brexit option won clearly, and now the government has the democratic duty to fulfill the choice taken in the referendum.

[bayesian_horse]

Of course the referendum was flawed. The Leave campaign was lying and there was foreign influence. And the question on the ballot was the wrong one.

Most leave-voters don't and didn't want the no-deal total chaos they are getting now.

There is no absolute "duty" to implement any referendum. If the referendum had any other outcome, wouldn't the Leave campaign have lied, bullied and cheated their way to another referendum a few years later?

It's not democratic to ram through your political agenda on the back of a referendum a few years ago, against what the voters want. It's even less democratic to fail to even ask what the voters want now.

[enriquto]

both sides lied and both sides relied heavily on foreign influence

I agree, of course, that the handling of the issue by May was a disaster, and Johnson is even worse