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According the most comprehensive polling, conducted by What UK Thinks (Prof. John Curtice), the British public are currently 52% Remain and 48% Leave. That is a slight increase for Leave compared to the polling conducted just before the EU Referendum.

In addition, according to the results of the recent EU Parilament elections, of those who voted, 55% voted remain in 2016 and 45% voted leave. However, even with a majority of former remain voters, the results of the election still gave a majority to pro-Brexit parties (Brexit Party, UKIP and Tories).

It seems that the number of people who would vote remain if they had a chance to vote again is shrinking as times goes by.

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Calls for a second referendum/peoples/final vote are will and continue to be a deceitful surreptitious clandestine means to reverse and or ignore the June 2016 democratic mandate to leave the European Union.

A rigged methodology to pose a false compromise.

A second referendum is a scenario to cheat, thwart the UK electorate desire to leave a Union that is so blatantly democratically, economically and politically flawed, allowing a London metropolitan elite to continue to obstructing the will of people. It is outrageous and false, a malicious deception.

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It is outrageous and false, a malicious deception.

As opposed to the malicious deception that was the first referendum, with its £350 million a week extra for the NHS, guaranteed place in the single market, claims of EU laws being 'imposed' on an unwilling UK, promises of no security checks on the Irish border, no jobs lost because of Brexit, Take Back Control! mendacity?

the UK electorate desire to leave

There is no mandate to leave. The 2016 referendum was advisory, as are all such referenda unless the legislation under which they are held states explicitly to the contrary, which this one didn't. The margin of difference was a mere 4% of votes cast - nowhere near enough to warrant a change of such constitutional proportions as leaving the EU. All it mandated was the need to address promptly and with sincerity the concerns of those who expressed a desire to leave the EU.

It certainly did not mandate the current no-deal-let's-wreck-the-UK-economy fiasco.

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Is it a question of taking back control? Or perhaps the belief of a pot of gold adorned on Boris's bus?

Or perhaps the contention of a rigged second referendum, would finally represent a more realistic mandate over the advisory nature of the first?

It is a fatuous to believe a no deal exists, it is an invention, a construct from failure to agree EU duplicitous negotiation process and principles. The EU “Taskforce 50” is the very definition of the malicious deception we both contend to opiniate from the great divide that is brexit.

Taskforce on Article 50 negotiations with the United Kingdom

https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/taskforce-article-50-negotiations-united-kingdom_en

There is perhaps one thing we can agree on, cleo, the UK withdrawal will finally put an end to the disastrous effect and consequences to the environment of the common agricultural policy if nothing else.

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Lawmakers have repeatedly rejected the idea of holding a second referendum even as many Britons have become increasingly frustrated with parliament's failure to agree how or whether Brexit should happen.

“Whether you want to leave the EU or to stay in, the only way to unlock the Brexit process in parliament, the only way to secure a stable majority in Parliament, the only way to legitimise the outcome so we can build a lasting settlement in the country is to give the people the final say,” said Michael Heseltine, a former deputy prime minister.

Once upon a time, there was a discussion in G.B. about whether or not G.B. should leave the E.U..  That discussion led to a vote, and the result of that vote was Britian to leave/exit the E.U..  Unfortunately for democracy, many British politicians worked against the will of the people. Many British politicians did not want to leave the E.U., and they didn't care what the majority of voters wanted. As un-believable as it sounds, British politicians who were against Britian leaving the E.U. were somehow placed in charge of Britian's efforts to leave the E.U..

It should come as no surprise that the attempt to leave the E.U. has so far failed. It never had a chance of being completed.

Now, some people are demanding a 2nd referendum. What are the possible outcomes from another "democratic" vote? If the Brits vote to remain in the E.U., those un-democratic politicians who chose to ignore the 1st vote, will cheer the new results, and claim they were right all along. If the Brits vote to leave the E.U., the un-democratic politicians will keep demanding new votes until they get the results they want.

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