| > People voted for Boris Actually no. The people have never voted for Boris to lead, and they have never voted for the present government either. Boris was voted into his position by 0.13% of the population. ... As for Brexit. Well, people do like to say it was a democratic referendum 3 years ago (while saying more votes would be undemocratic). But to believe that, you have to be happy to ignore the 4 million adults (5.5 million if you include 16+ year olds) who weren't allowed to vote but whose lives are most directly and severely affected by it. Include Brit pensioners abroad who are now talking about losing access to essential medical care but unable to move back (because they own homes in the EU at prices that don't work for moving to the UK), and non-Brit EU citizens, some of whom are expected to be deported in due course, breaking up families. (Forget about the non-EU families of EU citizens, who always had shitty treatment, so they're used to having no say.) That does not fit any true definition of democracy that I could call decent. "No taxation without representation" and all that. This article (which I only just stumbled across while searching for something else) sets it out as a violation of several types of human rights, and I basically agree since I was thinking the same thing for a while now: "In some respects the Brexit referendum was a violation of human rights" https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/02/09/brexit-referen... |