The EU referendum was fundamentally flawed according to criteria set by ardent Brexiter and former Brexit Secretary, David Davis, on how referendums should be “done properly”.
In July 2016, the Tory MP and then Chief Brexit Negotiator in Theresa May‘s new government, Mr Davis lauded the result of the EU referendum as fair, legal, and democratic.
But back in November 2002, Mr Davis spelled out what he considered to be the gold standard for good referendums.
Mr Davis was opposing the then Labour government’s plans to hold referendums on regional assemblies, because he considered that the structure of the proposed referendums would be undemocratic.
He detailed how referendums should be run to be valid. But based on what he said then, the 2016 EU referendum was ENTIRELY invalid.
𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝘁: daviddavis.eu-rope.com
𝗜 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝘄𝗵𝘆, 𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟮 𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗺 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 “𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆”, 𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲 𝗘𝗨 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰? 𝗡𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝗮𝘁: david.davis.mp@parliament.uk
