How to deal with voters when they want what you don't

Steal the Whigs clothes to stave off a Whig victory, as Disraeli did?

Partially adopt the Social Democrats' agenda to deny them power, as Bismarck did?

A moratorium on Muslim immigration to the EU might have been enough.

Maybe even just slowing it down.

Or maybe just cutting back on submission to PC so disgraceful it often seems more angered by alleged Islamophobic speech than actual Muslim Jihad.

In countries beset by Jihader violence and Muslims openly bent on demanding submission to Shariah how stupid is it to criminalize frank expression of anger at or fear and rejection of Islam and Muslim immigration?

In countries where every day in so many ways people frankly reject Christianity why is it illegal to frankly reject Islam?

But Hell, no.

Never give an inch.

Instead, you can always . . .

Delegitimate democracy

Blame it on motives you've already spent decades delegitimating

All the same, why is so momentous a decision, at least as important as a constitutional change, to be made by so shallow and even flippant a thing as a razor thin simple majority in a one-shot plebiscite?

This really is the sort of thing that should not be that easy.

The process of amending the US constitution is far too difficult, sure, which has partially justified the increasingly bold judicial dictatorship of the US Supremes, never very effectively masked by ever more boldly egregious lying on behalf of a minority agenda by them and their epigones among the lesser fry of the federal judiciary.

But this process was way, way too easy.

As has occurred to some people, almost certainly too late.

There is an online petition asking for a second referendum if results are close.

The petition, which has attracted more than 3,234,000 signatures in the wake of Britain's shock vote to leave the European Union last Thursday, calls for a second referendum on the issue if the result is less than decisive.

Another referendum should be held, it says, "if the remain or leave vote is less than 60 percent based [on] a turnout less than 75 percent." 

In a startling result, the Leave campaign won Thursday's referendum with 52% of the vote, with 72% of voters turning out.

Disappointed voters have flocked to sign the petition in the wake of the vote, crashing the official UK government website on at least one occasion and generating more signatures than on any other petition on the site.

However . . .

British Prime Minister David Cameron, who announced his intention to resign following the defeat of his Remain campaign, has previously said there would be no second referendum if the results were close, and enacting the petition would entail enacting laws retrospectively.

Why on Earth did Cameron make such a silly decision?

Anyway, here is Milo, whose joy is boundless.

Geert Wilders a month ago was writing about the same rebellion, really.

His congratulations to Britain.