RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Keir Starmer spent years trying to reverse Brexit. Now he's won power with far fewer votes than Leave, shouldn’t we re-run the election?
‘The result is catastrophic for the UK, for our communities and for the next generation.’
People didn’t know what they were voting for. They’re too stupid. They were swayed by that lying fraud Nigel Farage.
There’s no proper majority. The vote was merely advisory, not binding. It will have to be re-run. We need a People’s Vote to put it right.
The courts will have to intervene. Bring on Baroness Hale. Where’s Gina Miller when you need her?
We must have a second general election, NOW!
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks at a conference following his first Cabinet meeting at Downing Street on Saturday
The quote in the first paragraph was from Keir Starmer, launching his four-year campaign to overturn the result of the Brexit vote.
He wheeled out every argument in the book to claim that the outcome of the 2016 referendum, in which 17.4 million people voted Leave, was an affront to democracy.
The 52/48 margin was too narrow, Starmer and the Stop Brexit gang maintained. There needed to be a ‘supermajority’.
David Lammy, our new Foreign Secretary, railed: ‘When we talk about the will of the people, let us remember the 48 per cent who voted against this. Let us think about what they deserve. Wake up. We do not have to do this. We can stop this madness and bring this nightmare to an end.’
When the Remainers couldn’t halt Leave by parliamentary means, they resorted to lawfare. Step forward that mysteriously well-funded businesswoman Gina Miller, who went to the High Court to stop Brexit happening.
Later, the Supreme Court under Baroness Hale - she of the Boris The Spider brooch - ruled against Prime Minister Johnson’s attempts to prorogue Parliament to prevent Remainers, led by partisan Speaker John Bercow, frustrating the clear will of the British people.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy during a meeting with the Canadian minister for foreign affairs in London
Guyanese-British business owner and activist Gina Miller, who challenged Brexit in 2016
The BBC went into full national mourning mode. For weeks, the airwaves were dominated by the Alastair Campbells and Anna Soubrys screaming for a second referendum. Hundreds of thousands marched through London protesting the ‘illegitimate’ result.
Yet it is worth reminding ourselves that the 17.4 million who voted Leave was the largest number to have voted for anything in history.
They represented 52 per cent of the electorate, compared to the 34 per cent won by Labour last week on a low turnout with just 9.7 million actual votes, barely half the Leave haul in 2016.
Unless I’ve missed something, though, nobody is calling for a second General Election, even though Labour gained a whopping 172-seat majority on a vote share of little more than one-third.
Yet using the logic employed by Starmer and Co after the referendum, there should be a ‘confirmatory’ re-run right away.
This ridiculously disproportionate outcome makes a complete mockery of our so-called representative democracy. But the result has been accepted with barely a peep of protest.
I haven’t heard anyone complaining, Lammy-style, that we must remember the 80 per cent of the British people who didn’t vote Labour and claiming we can still ‘stop this madness and bring this nightmare to an end’.
There’s no evidence of a Gina Miller figure lining up a legal challenge.
Farage is still getting a slandering all round, obviously, but nobody is calling the British people who put Labour into power a bunch of ignorant racist gammons who didn’t know what they were voting for.
Nor are the fanatically pro-EU Lib Dems demanding the immediate introduction of proportional representation, after first-past-the-post delivered them 71 seats. If you can win big simply by falling off a paddleboard and bungee jumping, why worry?
Meanwhile, Starmer and Lammy, those tribunes of democracy, have already set about unpicking Brexit, despite having only received the support of one in five of those eligible to vote.
Camden Council leader Georgia Gould poses with Sir Keir at a 2019 anti-Brexit rally
So what about an imminent second election? This time, even Brenda from Bristol might be in favour.
After all, to coin a phrase, this result is ‘catastrophic for the UK, for our communities and for the next generation’.
Sadly, I wouldn’t hold your breath. They are the masters now and will probably spend the next five years working out how to abolish elections altogether, while cementing us back into the EU permanently.
Makes you proud to be British.
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