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Weighted best of 4 options could work. And you can use MEPs to pick their options then run STV on their views (see Northern Irish Stormont elections)
So WA / Remain / Customs Union / CU/SM, put favourite in box 1, then next in 2...
Then if nothing has a majority (it won't) count the 2s...and so on.
But the WA needs to pass before cu or cu/SM are on the table (other options just ain't on with Northern Ireland and Gibraltar) so maybe two referendums needs to be ran.
I agree it's... complicated. Canning article 50 is the easy way out. But you know "will of the people" :/
If only this was considered in 2016... :(
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I'm quite a fan of democracy but I see real problems with a second referendum.
Nothing stopping them from spending lots of money promoting Brexit breaking the law.
And it's being non-binding, nothing stopping the government from obliging the referendum result.
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I think the selection process for candidates works differently in different parties - some have a system where local membership can decide, and some have a closed list.
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I'm quite a fan of democracy but I see real problems with a second referendum. Mainly what should the question be and if there are three or four options how do we calculate the result?
If they happen, the next European elections for MEPs may provide a peoples vote, even a vote for Europe. If every candidate was encouraged (forced?) to state their personal position on Brexit (no deal, this deal, that deal, remain etc) we may get a revised view of the will of the people.
This scheme is complicated by the party list PR election system in GB. Does anyone know how the preselection process works?