Stop Brexit
b'It\\u2019s time we came to to our senses. Brexit is a disaster and must be stopped. Leave campaigners promised our exit from the European Union would herald a glorious new era \\u2013 the sunlit uplands of \\u2018global Britain\\u2019, with new trade deals signed in a matter of months and an extra \\xa3350 million per week for the NHS. But what do we have today? Sterling has collapsed, Boris has been busy bungling in Brussels, and the government\\u2019s own leaked economic assessments show that leaving the EU will harm every single region of the country, especially \\u2018left behind\\u2019 areas that voted to Leave. The public was misled, and as David Davis once said, \\u2018If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy\\u2019. Let\\u2019s end this madness and call the whole thing off. That\\u2019s the reasoning of the Remoaners. But can you imagine the damage we\\u2019d do to our politics if we overturned the democratic expression of 17 million people \\u2013 the single biggest mandate in British history? If these sneering liberals had their way, the masses would be forced to vote in referendum after referendum until they gave the \\u2018correct\\u2019 answer. What part of \\u2018take back control\\u2019 don\\u2019t they understand? And spare us the whingeing over economic forecasts. We all remember Project Fear and the phoney establishment warnings that the sky would fall in once we voted to Leave. Is it time the public voted again on this defining issue of our times? Or should we embrace the opportunities\\xa0presented by leaving the EU? Arguing in favour of the motion were Gina Miller, the businesswoman and campaigner who wasd the lead claimant in the successful legal fight to allow parliament to vote on whether the UK could start the process of leaving the EU; and Chuka Umunna, Labour MP for Streatham and a prominent pro-EU campaigner, who is now the leader of a coalition of cross-party groups representing 500,000 members pushing for a referendum on the final EU deal. Arguing against the motion were Gerard Lyons, one of the country\\u2019s leading economists and an expert on the global economy, and co-author of\\xa0Clean Brexit: Why Leaving The EU Still Makes Sense; and Isabel Oakeshott, a pro-Brexit journalist and broadcaster who was political editor of The Sunday Times and authored The Bad Boys of Brexit, an inside account of Nigel Farage and Arron Banks\\u2019 Leave.EU campaign. The debate was chaired by Nick Robinson, presenter on Radio 4\\u2019s Today programme and former BBC political editor.\\n\\nSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.\\n\\nSee acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'