Britain's vote to leave EU passes with ~51.8%

IMO this is where democracy shows it failing, in that 52% might be a majority but it effectively is a lose-lose situation; the numbers are meant to represent the views of the people, and to conclude that the people are more in favour of leaving is not the right nor the primary conclusion that should be drawn from this referendum. Again this is IMO.
Hadriel

I feel like anything near a 50/50 split, leaning either way, should be taken to further voting until it's something more people can actually agree with. The main reason they even won was because Cameron wasn't able to get acceptable renegotiation terms with the EU, wasn't it? If he had gone back and tried again for better terms until it was a 66/33 split for remain that would have been much better, I feel like taking a 50/50 split is a good way to piss off half of all people and make them permanently salty about how close the vote was. An election is obviously different since there will -never- be a close consensus for that sort of thing. This is also assuming people won't be dicks and vote against something no matter what just to be spiteful, which is a bad assumption to make. There is no system that has or ever will exist that people can't pineapple up, basically.