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The Reaction to Brexit Is the Reason Brexit Happened
If you believe there's such a thing as "too much democracy," you probably don't believe in democracy at all. By Matt Taibbi. [Disable adblocker]
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Jeremy Corbyn loses 'no confidence' vote among Labour MPs by 172 to 40
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Inside account of Labour MPs’ attacks on Jeremy Corbyn
The charges against the Labour leader as set out by his own MPs. By Tom McTague. -
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France and Germany are running out of time to fix the single currency. By Pierre Briançon. -
Brexit is great news for the rest of the EU
Britain has not yet come to terms with its own irrelevance, and would only have got in the way of plans to create a more democratic pooling of sovereignty. By Joris Luyendijk.
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This is the kind of matter that should be decided in a referendum. And it was, so there should be no going back. However, the issue here is that democracy has been abused to such an extent that many people voted while being confused, scared and angry. And it's not their fault, there's clearly something wrong with our society and politics. Everyone in the EU and UK needs to think really hard about media and their duty not to mislead, about politicians and their duty to be accountable in front of the voters, about governments and institution and their duty working for the benefit of the people and communicating and explaining their decisions. and, most importantly, the need to have well informed, educated and motivated people for democracy to actually work. I hope that UK will negotiate a deal with EU that will benefit the people both in the UK and EU, and that this will also lead to changes that will make UK, EU and every country in the EU a stronger, fairer democracy.
There are those that, without succumbing to bewilderment by demagogues, stake out principled reasons for making the adult decision to vote the way they did. They’re not necessarily wrong. Devil you know or the devil you don’t know: pick only one.
"If you believe there's such a thing as "too much democracy," you probably don't believe in democracy at all."
Only applies when one disagrees with decision(s) made.