{"id":47918,"date":"2019-04-19T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47918"},"modified":"2019-04-18T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:32:13","slug":"the-next-euro-elections-as-the-second-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/19\/the-next-euro-elections-as-the-second-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"The next Euro-elections as &#8220;the second referendum&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.continentaltelegraph.com\/brexit\/remoaners-be-careful-you-really-want-euro-elections-to-be-second-referendum\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Cook<\/a> wonders why the Remoaners seem so eager to cast the May 23 European elections as the second referendum they&#8217;ve been eager to have, as the early indications show something less than full eagerness among British voters for any of the pro-remain groups:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brexit-outline-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brexit-outline-map-480x341.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brexit-outline-map-480x341.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brexit-outline-map-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brexit-outline-map-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brexit-outline-map-853x606.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brexit-outline-map.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Timothy Garton Ash is, I think, making something of a mistake here. For he\u2019s calling for the upcoming euro-elections to be seen as a second referendum on our leaving the European Union. The point being that this is going to be something of a hostage to fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more importantly the more Remoaners call for it to be seen and treated as such the more likely we are to see what lying toads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/apr\/18\/european-elections-second-brexit-referendum-vote-register\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they are<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Britain will have its second referendum \u2013 on 23 May. Don\u2019t miss it<br \/>\nTimothy Garton Ash This is a crucial chance to show politicians how we feel now about leaving Europe. The turnout must be huge<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The point being, well, what if Leave wins?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>In just five weeks\u2019 time, Britain will have a referendum on Brexit. This will take the form of elections to the European parliament, but in reality this will be a pre-referendum, or, if you like your neologisms ugly, a preferendum. So there is now one simple task: to maximise the vote for parties that support a confirmatory referendum on Brexit, giving the British people a democratic choice between accepting the negotiated Brexit deal and remaining in the EU.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there\u2019s the toad bit. There\u2019s a significant portion of the population who\u2019d prefer to just Leave. Don\u2019t care about the terms, the deal, let\u2019s just leave the b\u2019tards to stew in their own juices and we\u2019ll get on with solving whatever problems remain after we\u2019ve not remained. And this is a significant portion \u2013 perhaps not a majority, maybe not even a plurality but that\u2019s going to be the interesting test<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Early polls show that Nigel Farage and his new Brexit Party are in the lead over both Labour and the Conservatives. Of course, he&#8217;ll have to weather a full month of unbridled hate and slander from the media, but what can they possibly say about him or his new party that they haven&#8217;t already screamed and bellowed before? Once you&#8217;ve fired all the invective in your shot locker, you don&#8217;t stand much chance of changing anyone&#8217;s opinion if they didn&#8217;t react the first dozen times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Cook wonders why the Remoaners seem so eager to cast the May 23 European elections as the second referendum they&#8217;ve been eager to have, as the early indications show something less than full eagerness among British voters for any of the pro-remain groups: Timothy Garton Ash is, I think, making something of a mistake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,53],"tags":[766,188,337,289,114],"class_list":["post-47918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-electionwatch","tag-eu","tag-polls","tag-separatism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-csS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47919,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47918\/revisions\/47919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}