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A second referendum So, the #RemainInEU   got their wish for a second vote. They are relying on the voters who voted to stay in the sinking EU to vote for again,  and hoping that Project Fear   will scare some of the borderline voters to sway the vote back. As with all things, this could work, there again it has a bad habit of backfiring on you - ask Ed Milliband - the former Labour leader was counting on the SNP   to back Labour in Scotland. What happened was Labour's nightmare, not only did the SNP not back Labour, the Pro-SNP movement cost Labour valuable;e seats and he lost the election and his job as leader. You need to remember that holding a second vote so close to the first is a suicidal ploy unless things have gone from bad to worse. In the case of Brexit , the UK has never seen such good things for generations. In this scenario, a second vote is doomed because people keep reading about trade deals and trade growth, despite the  media bia...