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Thread #160890   Message #3818746
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
07-Nov-16 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit again
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit again
BWM, here are the sentences you referred to,
"This Bill requires a referendum to be held on the question of the UK's continued membership of the European Union (EU) before the end of 2017. It does not contain any requirement for the UK Government to implement the results of the referendum, nor set a time limit by which a vote to leave the EU should be implemented. Instead, this is a type of referendum known as pre-legislative or consultative, which enables the electorate to voice an opinion which then influences the Government in its policy decisions."

It does not contain any requirement for the UK Government to implement the results of the referendum, but the government assured the people that they would implement it, and I, Kevin, Steve, and the rest of the country, assumed that is what would happen.

What is FACT (you do understand the concept of 'fact', do you?) is what is contained in the Referendum Bill, to which I have linked twice - once to the whole Bill, and again to the relevant section regarding the advisory nature only of the Bill.

It is a FACT that you failed to link to the relevant section, but I found it anyway.

It is a FACT that the government assured the country that it would implement the decision, even though the Bill you keep on about said it did not have to.