Why is the democratic decision to leave not an "adult" decision?
To conduct the referendum and then not abide by the result would absolutely be undemocratic. The UK is already dragging it's heels on taking action WRT Brexit IMO. I think that they will drag it out so long that they say the mandate of the referendum has expired, and then re-rerun the referendum. They will rinse and repeat until they get the result they want.
As an example Ireland voted not to join the EU the first time they did a referendum, they simply had more referendums until they got a yes.
To conduct the referendum and then not abide by the result would absolutely be undemocratic. The UK is already dragging it's heels on taking action WRT Brexit IMO. I think that they will drag it out so long that they say the mandate of the referendum has expired, and then re-rerun the referendum. They will rinse and repeat until they get the result they want.
As an example Ireland voted not to join the EU the first time they did a referendum, they simply had more referendums until they got a yes.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/13/eu-ire...