After describing MPs to be in ‘political deadlock’, Putney MP Greening pleads number 10 for a final hoorah and Brexit back-out option. Greening proposes a tiered ballot system of a three-way preferential vote: ‘leave the EU with no deal’,’remain within the EU’ or ‘submit May’s Chequers deal’.
Such a vote would not only remove current political indecisiveness (much like before the Brexit referendum was agreed to take place) but would also restore public dignity by facilitating a finally unbiased, un-influenced and much better informed vote. The fact of the matter is that the electorate were uneducated on the complexities of the reality of what leaving the EU would entail, and in the past months much of what a Brexit deal could mean has been revealed to the public.
Surely it’s more undemocratic to base a nations economic and political future off of an ill-informed, media plagued and party biased vote than it is allowing the vote to be cast again but with a wider variety of voter choice and a truly understood ballot question?
Greening concludes that “We'll be dragging Remain voters out of the EU for a deal that means still complying with many EU rules, but now with no say on shaping them” and “For Leavers, this deal simply does not deliver the proper break from the European Union that they wanted."
Theresa May, however, does not agree. May argues that “Another vote which would likely leave us no further forward than the last. And another vote which would further divide our country at the very moment we should be working to unite it”.
How can Britain move past the pain staking political keep-up and economic doom that Brexit invites if not for an informed, democratic and final say in the future of not only our country but our democracy.
