Are you a quitter?

[ShandyDrinker]

We we do an Ireland, and vote repeatedly until the EU gets the result it wants

^^^What MB said.

We'll vote in perpetuity until we give in. It seems to be a common theme... just look at what's going to happen with Scotland until the SNP get the result they want in an independence referendum.

[centurian]

He will get nothing whatsoever out of renegotiations and both parties (in and out) know it.

WHS

He will get a few crumbs and scraps, but it will be the kind of stuff he could have got anyway, without needing a referendum.

[Elliegirl]

I intend to vote 'out' for the sheer, exciting, risk taking nature of it.
I'm a contractor. I don't go for the safe option.

[VectraMan]

^^^What MB said.

We'll vote in perpetuity until we give in. It seems to be a common theme... just look at what's going to happen with Scotland until the SNP get the result they want in an independence referendum.

You've got that analogy backwards. It'll be the Kippers demanding referendum after referendum to get the change they want; just like the SNP. The EU wants no referenda, no change, and if Britain votes to leave then what the EU wants doesn't come into it.

There's no point to have a repeat referendum unless the mood of the public's changed significantly. The way that might happen is if following the referendum lots of high profile companies start pulling out of the UK and the silent majority that wanted to be left alone and didn't bother to vote suddenly wake up and realise how they've been sold down the river by a more motivated minority. But that's probably a bit fanciful and more likely the decline will be slow, little will change with our relationship with our neighbours, and most people will see the whole referendum debacle as a colossal waste of time and money. Just like the Scottish one.

Everybody agrees the Cameron renegotiating thing is a waste of time, but what we do need to know is what an outside EU Britain would actually be like. Would we be like Norway and Switzerland, still paying into the EU budget and still obeying EU laws, or would we wind the clock back 50 years and reinstall customs at Dover and going back to driving Rovers and eating British grown tomatoes. I don't see how we can vote on it until we can see what the alternative is actually going to be.