You're not moving the subject forward. Leave won. Nearly a year ago. What's the plan?

Why should there be a level playing field? The Swiss initiate a referendum by popular initiative. You are mired in the mindset of "winning and losing". It's really rather odd. We're just taking a different path. I speak to many of the less-frothy Europeans about this, and about Brexit, and they are surprised at the animus between the two Brexit sides. You're still pitching it as a battle, rather than simply a different path that has been democratically mandated we now follow.

Going back to the Swiss, there are certainly limitations - so people cannot genuinely lose -- not social media lose: "oh my God, I've lost the right to 'love, live and learn' in Europe - oh noes!", but in terms of fundamental rights. As to your suggestion that voters are (essentially) too stupid to vote in referenda, due to the biased nature of information they receive... could you please explain how that is different to the information they receive voting in a General Election?

If leaving the EU "isn't a suitable issue for a referendum", then how else is it decided? Do you not see GE as incredibly blunt tools? Am I allowed to say that 80%+ of the population are now Brexiteers, because they voted for parties in the GE committed to us leaving the EU? Why do we need a change of govt each and every time we need to decide on something of national importance? Isn't that chucking the baby out with the bathwater?

I genuinely don't understand the resistance to direct democracy. MPs need to be executors of our kratos, not "acting according to either their interests of those of their lobbyists". The people are sovereign, and the government governs by consent of the people.

You say our democracy is "intended to be representative" - ordained by who? Was there some unwritten rulebook somewhere? Why does it have to be that way? Why would it be so impossible to introduce a "referendum by popular initiative" on issues that "we, the people" deem important, but not parliament? Have you ever seen the online petitions ever receive anything more than a contemptuous waving of papers from the Green benches, when they reach the threshold? The only other avenue is lobbying your MP for a private members bill, which is similarly treated to a contemptuous waving of papers from the benches. To hell with that, frankly.

I suggest you look at the type of initiatives the Swiss vote on. Some of them are mundane, some of them are very important. But the critical point is that their voice is undiluted by treacherous representatives who do not reflect their views. For the most part, it's not about "winners and losers" (I get it - politics here is now as entrenched as football in terms of loyalties, thus "winning" and "losing", it's about choosing the path for your country. I trust the electorate more than I do the career politicians who claim to represent us.... and if we screw up once in a while -- well, laws can be repealed, changed and amended. The Swiss don't seem to be falling apart because of it.

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I hope that's not a Kermit reference...

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Pretty simple. Get out.

Sing up ya bums

The EU is a busted flush.
The only thing keeping 'the project' alive is the constant printing of billions upon billions (from thin-air) by the ECB and this reliance on debt should tell everyone they need to know.
I've no doubt that it'll be a bit painful for a while but ultimately we're far better out than in.

Buy Litecoin.

Leave as quickly as possible, any deals should not involve free movement of people, parliamentary sovereignty must be assured as should British courts' jurisdiction.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]