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UK: (3) - What about another referendum? This would arguably be even more
problematic. Calling a second referendum when the first one has not be satisfied
would again be considered an assault on democracy. A second referendum would
also be more complicated and opaque (in terms of securing a sufficiently strong
mandate) than the first. There are three obvious potential options: no-deal
(disorderly and extreme), May's deal (considered by many to be 'Brexit only in
name') and an option for staying in the EU such as revoking Article 50
(effectively overruling the previous referendum result). No two of these three
choices neatly  represent both sides of the debate, so all three would need to
be included on the ballot. That would then raise the issue of how democratically
credible a three-way vote would be.
- All this leads me to believe that the perceived risk of no-deal (even if it is
not an immediate risk) is 'under priced'. 

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