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Thread #162855   Message #3935385
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
05-Jul-18 - 04:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
From: Steve Shaw

It was Nigel's suggested retreat from parliamentary democracy that I was referring to, Dick, not to anything Keith said. True Tory colours, of course. Parliament is so inconvenient to these Tories. Good job we have people like Gina Miller to rein them in.


I made no such suggestion. The speech I quoted below makes clear what David Cameron stated in Parliament. There was a majority vote to hold the referendum.
The leave vote won the referendum.
Article 50 should then have been issued.

Anyone who believes that it should first have been voted on (again) by Parliament needs only to look at the result of the vote after the court case, an overwhelming vote to issue article 50. Do you believe that the vote, if held immediately after the referendum,(rather than later) could have gone any other way?