But it's the LEGISLATION that sets the rules. You know - the Sovreignty of the U.K. Parliament that you Brexiteers said you were voting for.
Or were you all lying in your fucking teeth about that too?

Sad that you can not make a point without swearing.
There were lots of lawyers involved in setting up the referendum.
They told us it would be binding, but knew a legal challenge would be possible.
They decided to keep it quiet in case, unthinkably, the people did not vote as they were supposed to.

They could have repealed those medieval laws to make their promises true, but safer to keep them as a get out clause.