Non avevo capito la domanda
La Cornovaglia tra il 2007 e il 2013 ha incassato dall'Europa sovvenzioni pari a 654 milioni di sterline. E ora infatti molti elettori di Leave intervistati dalla BBC vorrebbero tornare indietro e votare Remain.
Questo sta accadendo da piu' parti: gli elettori dichiarano di essere stati ingannati, di non aver compreso il quadro di conseguenze del loro voto.
So che e' una questione delicata, ma mi viene spontaneo domandarmi: davvero queste persone avevano la preparazione per votare?
Al compimento del diciottesimo anno, tutti (senza distinzione di genere, classe e titolo di studio) possono condurre un autoveicolo. Naturalmente devono prima sostenere un semplice esame per dimostrare di conoscere il codice della strada. Per carita', poi gli incidenti accadono comunque, ma si suppone che senza aver superato quell'esame la probabilita' che guidando una macchina si possa arrecare un danno a se stessi e agli altri sarebbe molto piu' alta.
Il voto, anche se magari nel calor bianco delle campagne elettorali non sembra, puo' avere conseguenze molto pericolose per l'intera societa'. Questi giorni ne sono una dimostrazione.
Quindi certo, tutti devono avere diritto di votare, di esprimersi: ci mancherebbe altro! Ma devono prima dimostrare di conoscere l'architettura istituzionale e le leggi fondamentali che regolano la convivenza sociale (in Italia, la Costituzione), almeno nelle sue linee fondamentali.
Non si tratta di superare un esame avanzato di diritto costituzionale, ma di sapere rispondere a una quindicina di domande a risposta multipla questo si'. Per serieta'. Per proteggere se stessi e gli altri. Per poi non dover dire che non si era capita la domanda, proprio come sta succedendo qui in questi giorni.
Commenti
"If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises that he has lost.
Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.
With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.
How?
Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.
And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legistlation to be torn up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.
The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.
The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?
Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?
Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-maneouvered and check-mated.
If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.
The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.
When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never". When Michael Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal departure. They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.
All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign."
Davide
Mo' chi glielo dice agli elettori? Sara' interessante vedere anche cosa si fara' dei 3 milioni di firme, tra le quali ovviamente la mia, che chiedono l'annullamento del referendum. Non siamo pochi.
C'e' anche un altro commento molto interessante e condivisibile sul Guardian (non ricordo piu' se l'ho letto ieri o addirittura venerdi'), questo:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/divided-britain-brexit-money-class-inequality-westminster?CMP=share_btn_fb.
Un'analisi piu' lucida di questa e' difficile scriverla, ma ti preannuncio, se non l'hai ancora letta, che fa stare parecchio male (come tutto cio' che ci mette di fronte alla realta', del resto).
Molte grazie per il tuo intervento.