Brexit and "Will of the People"

The Brexiteers talk of "will of the people".

The problem with the "will of the people" is that firstly the "will" changes with the wind (which is why direct rule doesn't work - just watch "A Century of the Self", but "the people" also change.


In two years when we finish negotiations (assuming we don't get an extension of a transnational deal) there will be a change of population of around 3,000,000 of "the people" since the referendum date.

That's a bigger number than the Leave lead, so do we then risk frustrating the "will of the people" if that will has changed? 
Or is the "will of the people" on of paramount importance when it happens to coincide with your own opinion.

 "Will of the people" is mob rule speak for "shut up, there are more of us than you". It is not democracy.



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