The first post in the comments section from that article on buzzfeed:
When MPs complain about losing the whip and possibly their seats, they need to remember that through their selfishness and greed, 17.4million people lost their votes.
The people lost almost 50yrs. 50yrs without a say. Without a vote. Entire lives spent in the EEC/EU without a vote and against their will. Nobody ever said times have changed. Nobody ever said they didn’t know what they were voting for. Nobody ever said this is a constitutional outrage.
And they didn’t just leave it at the 1973 going in result, they pushed more and more. Decade after decade, treaty after treaty. Against our will, in our names, without our say. Not one solitary vote.
We get our single vote, after a lifetime. We see the banks, the governments, the foreign leaders, the universities, the unions, the businesses, the corporations and talking heads, the newspapers, the media, the newsreaders, the journalists and the celebrities, all lined up against us.
We have nothing but a single vote. They have power, almost unrestrained, definitely immoral absolute ruthless power. They use our taxes to lie. They take our money. They tell us we are stupid, ignorant and racist. They promise hellfire and damnation.
The 17.4m trudge forward through sneers and insults. We are nobodies, lower than serfs, but we have a vote.
Another 3 years. The basic agreement on which all democracy rests is ignored. The simple obvious principle that winning votes are enacted. We hear ten thousand lies, the whisper of angry serpents. More hellfire and damnation. Endless plots and schemes. They will give us something that wasn’t promised. They will give is a substitute, a fake, a turd rolled in glitter.
We don’t want it. We just want the thing we voted for. We just want the thing we won. They give new meanings to the words that matter. Democracy, sovereignty, freedom. All become their opposite. A coup, they say. Trying to enact this vote is a coup.
This is the final insult. All language is corrupted, all meaning there to be abused, twisted, rendered in false mockery of its agreed and traditional self.
Anything to deny 17.4 million their vote, anything to silence us, anything to return power to the powerful. We are more than a star in someone else’s flag.
