REMAINERS CARRY ON THE FIGHT.

There always are people who are more than happy to join in a demonstration about almost anything. It's an opportunity for a day out with lots of chanting and flag, or banner, waving for whatever the cause is. In truth, the cause is rarely the real reason for the demonstration, it's just an excuse.

Today, in London, it's reported that anything up to 500,000 people joined in a demonstration against Brexit. Apparently, these people all want there to be a second referendum, ostensibly to allow the electorate a say about whatever deal is, or is not, agreed between the United Kingdom and European Union; in fact, those who actually care simply want an opportunity to reverse the result of the referendum held in 2016 and which their side lost. They are anti-democrats of the type so beloved of the bureaucrats of the European Union.

In 2016, 17.4 million people voted for the UK to leave the EU. Today, 0.5 million demonstrated their opposition to the democratic result of a democratic vote, their leaders citing a raft of spurious reasons why a second referendum should be held, why it wouldn't actually be a referendum but a 'people's vote' and why such a vote wouldn't simply be an undemocratic rejection of a wholly democratic original process.

Had the 'remain' side won in 2016, Prime Minister David Cameron would have praised the sense of the electorate and charged on regardless, immersing the UK ever deeper in the mire that is the EU. The very notion of there being a second vote, whatever it might be called, would have been laughed out of court and the views of those, however many, who had voted to leave the EU would have been trampled underfoot. Had Cameron got the result he wanted, and expected, the voice of Brexit would have been silenced forever. So why is it so different now that 'Leave' won ?

Simply, the establishment didn't get its own way. The people didn't do what they were expected to do, told to do, even frightened into doing. Instead, they took the opportunity to have their voices heard and gave the establishment a good hard kick in its complacent, supercilious backside. Unfortunately, the establishment had no intention of letting this minor setback upset its longer term plans, and so it's kept up a campaign to get the result reversed, one way or another. A second referendum, delaying tactics, 'impossible' problems to resolve, any and every obstacle has been put in the way of a successful Brexit and, today, it was a demonstration in London backed by an assortment of dedicated Europhiles. 

However, in the end it's the balance of numbers which must win. 17.4 million voted to leave the EU, 0.5 million may have demonstrated to stay in. Seems pretty clear to me.