Quotes About Referendum

A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.

A majority of voters in a majority of constituencies voted to leave the E.U. I wish it wasn't so.

The Labour party still really has no idea why their people voted for Brexit. They still think that basically it's naive Labour voters being conned by terribly clever Tories.

The Corbynista brand of politics representing metropolitan, middle class, pro-open border values is far removed from millions of Labour voters, especially those who voted Leave in the referendum.

Midterms behave very differently than presidential elections. Midterms, for a federal candidate, often times are a referendum on the president, where in presidential years, voters make two separate choices: one for president and one for a federal officeholder.

Yes, I believe in parliamentary sovereignty, but irrespective of what the Electoral Commission decides, I am now even more convinced that there must be a people's vote on the Brexit deal, including an option to remain, or remain voters will have good reason to shout foul play.

If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.

I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.

Brexit has certainly exposed an ugly underbelly of our democracy. It is clear to me that we must ensure that the many Leave voting communities must never be left behind again.

One might have thought that Brexit would be a wake-up call for the American media. Yet, just as in the U.K. referendum, 'Russia' became the buzzword in the U.S. election that the political and media establishments thought would scare people into voting for the status quo.

Because Scotland and Northern Ireland want to remain part of the E.U., there is the quite real possibility that Scotland and even Northern Ireland might now choose to go their own way on membership within the E.U. and the 'United Kingdom' would suddenly effectively be only England and Wales.

I want to stop Brexit.

The U.K. decided to leave the E.U. - Brexit means Brexit.

I think, as ever, with a big change like Brexit, it's awakened people's interest in politics.

You might want a certain type of Brexit deal, but you can't get it if the numbers aren't there.

Look at what the divisiveness of Brexit has done to the U.K.

Brexit can be stopped.

I'm obsessed with Brexit.

Liberal Democrats will not rest until we have stopped Brexit.

The people should make the final decision on Brexit when they see the government's Brexit deal.

Vote Leave broke the law. I can say that out loud now. Vote Leave broke the law. But nothing happened.

The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.

Whatever may have been suggested by some Leavers during the referendum it must be clear now that the Brexit process is immensely complicated.

Europe's reaction to the UK's referendum was dominated by the same harsh response that greeted Greece's June 2015 ballot-box rejection of its bailout package. Herman Van Rompuy, former European Council1 president, expressed a widespread feeling when he said that Cameron's decision to hold a referendum "was the worst policy decision in decades." In so saying, he revealed a deep antipathy toward democratic accountability.