Isn't this the pattern, though? When the people vote "the wrong way," they are pestered until they vote "the right way." The EU has form on this.
Neither of the major political parties is supporting remain/revoke as an option and yet there is now a consistent majority polling in favour of it. That's
remarkable. Imagine what the numbers would look like if there was some actual leadership on the issue.
Right or wrong, the democratic process is ostensibly sacrosanct but it's being overridden. If there needs to be another "once in a generation" referendum this year or next year then fine, have one. But doesn't this mean there should be the same referendum every few years?
Sacrosanct? The vote that's been declared unsafe by the Electoral Commission due to criminal activity by one of the participants in the campaign?
Even disregarding that (as the entire political establishment seems bafflingly willing to do), it is impossible to argue that all 17.4M leave voters all voted for exactly the shitshow we're now looking at. Some may have thought they were voting for a harder, no deal Brexit (they were wrong, BTW — Vote Leave's campaign literature explicitly ruled that out), some may have voted for a softer, Norway-style Brexit, as mentioned repeatedly by Johnson, Gove, Hannan and even Farage. There's no way of knowing…unless we ask them.
If the price of getting us out of this is a
sensible referendum every, say, ten years to renew the mandate, I can live with that.