>> Can you explain why you think "it happened because too many people failed to exercise their right to be heard. Until it was too late", as opposed to the logical result of people of good faith doing the exact opposite?
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If what you say is true- then it happened because too many people failed to exercise their right to be heard. Until it was too late.
I'm not saying I think it's true, Monsieur Straw Man, I'm responding to what somebody else said. With a truism. ;-)
For the rest: thanks for causing me to review the Brexit voting figures. If (say) double the percentage of younger voters had participated, that translates into around a million additional under 35y votes. So even if 100% of them voted to stay rather than the calculated 75%, it's still not enough to change the result. According to my math, anyway.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
