Pleb Potts #FBPE.FBPPR.

Let’s think out of the box here. We don’t need to rerun the flawed 2016 Referendum; we can realign as we are doing now and rejoin under a settled general-election mandate. We are no longer in the 19thc where the surviving Brexiters still live. Polling has already moved past the binary of a decade ago. Majorities now favour rejoining (YouGov 59–32, Messina Group 49–28.5); the experiment’s costs are priced in and the residual opposition is a minority. The country has, in effect, already voted with its subsequent preferences. The EU has indicated it would welcome the application. Macron and Sánchez have said so publicly; the Commission remains open to structured engagement. The institutional door is not closed. Andy Burnham can therefore place realignment and re-accession at the centre of the next manifesto. A clear electoral victory on that programme supplies the democratic affirmation required, converting an already obvious public preference into a durable mandate without reopening the wounds and opportunity for lies and misinformation of 2016. The choice is between another ritual referendum and a straightforward act of representative democracy. The latter is available.