The Importance of Centrism in Politics

I wanted a referendum that everyone pledged to enact to be disowned by a second referendum. That's not moderate, that's not centre. It's about means and ends because the end of Brexit was so dangerous. But when we use terms of moderate and centre to describe something like that, I think is inaccurate and imprecise. And there are two problems with that: it feels to a lot of people who care passionately about their politics, kind of meritricious and without any kind of ethical anchor. You've just got this sort of smoldering crater where the centre ground used to be. The whole point of it is something that wins elections and it loses, and loses to a