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Let’s be clear what’s simply occurred. Sadiq Khan has stated Britain rejoining the EU is “inevitable”. Not one thing to debate. Not one thing to vote on. Inevitable. Think about that.

Because when a politician tells you one thing is inevitable, what they’re actually saying is: Your opinion doesn’t matter.

We already had a vote on this. The largest democratic train in British historical past, 17.4 million individuals voted to depart. And now, little by little, you see the identical political class making an attempt to edge us again in.

First it’s the customs union. Then the only market. Then “alignment”. Then all of the sudden we’re again the place we began. No straight query. No trustworthy argument. Just a gradual reversal. And now the Mayor of London is brazenly saying it out loud. That we’re going again. Whether you prefer it or not.

And it will get worse. He’s even recommended this might occur with out one other referendum. Let that sink in.

The similar individuals who speak endlessly about democracy, inclusion, and “having your voice heard” are actually fairly comfy bypassing the general public fully. Because they didn’t like the reply the primary time.

This is the sample. When the general public votes the “wrong” means, the vote will get reinterpreted, diluted, or ignored. That’s not democracy. That’s administration.

And it tells you one thing greater about how London and this nation are being run. Decisions aren’t being pushed by the general public. They’re being pushed by a political class that thinks it is aware of higher.

You see it with policing the place priorities really feel fully out of step with what atypical individuals really need. And now you see it right here on one thing as elementary as sovereignty.

Khan says Brexit has induced injury. Fine. Make that argument. But don’t inform individuals the reply is “inevitable”. Convince them. Win the argument.

But they don’t wish to try this. Because they know what may occur. And that’s the true situation.

This isn’t about Europe. It’s about management. Who decides the path of the nation? The individuals or the political class?

Because proper now, it seems like the reply is shifting. Gradually. But unmistakably.

Londoners are being instructed to simply accept issues not select them. And that ought to fear everybody. Whatever facet you had been on in 2016.

Because if politicians can determine a vote doesn’t rely… What else can they determine?

Laila Cunningham is Reform UK’s London mayoral candidate