Two opinion polls last week revealed the truth about the nation's views of Brexit.
The first, in the Sunday Times, remarkably revealed that 52 per cent would vote to ‘Remain’, which Remainers gleefully used to prove that the British public have a bad case of Bre-gret. However, it’s fundamentally misleading.
First, it is obviously impossible to remain in an organisation that you have left, and a referendum that asked if people wanted to ‘rejoin’ would have very different connotations indeed.
The blob has never come to terms with Brexit and is desperate to tie Britain to a failing and bankrupt European Union that it always thought the electorate was stupid to vote to leave.
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However, I suggest that remainers don’t get too excited about the Sunday Times poll.
Because a new poll conducted by Queen Mary University and YouGov has just been released and this one has got away from predetermined views on Brexit by not mentioning the ‘B-word’ at all.
It asks what powers people want the nation to have and which ones ought to be shared with international bodies.
The poll gave respondents three options, alongside ‘don't know’, to 20 questions on decision making. These were ‘The UK Government alone’, ‘The UK Government involving other nations on a non-binding basis’, and ‘The UK Government bound by international institutions’.
On every single question, the most popular answer was the UK Government alone, and in 17 of the 20 questions, this answer, including the ‘don’t knows’, had over 50 per cent support, so that, for example, on VAT, 71 per cent want the UK to make the rules exclusively, while only 5 per cent want the Government to be bound by international institutions, as was the case when we were members of the EU.
The three that did not have over 50 per cent support were AI regulation, data protection, and trade rules.
So despite the relentless remainer whinging, the fundamentals of Brexit are as popular as ever. The British people do want their parliament to be sovereign, despite the poor quality of Government they are currently being provided with.
This idea of taking back control was at the heart of the Brexit campaign, that decisions affecting the UK must be made by those who are democratically accountable to domestic voters.
It is wonderful that voters have confidence in their own nation, a positive position that looks to a bright future.
The sadness is that our politicians are such pessimists, but when politicians do not match the needs of a democratic people, new ones can and will replace them.
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