Referndum

[googleplexian123]

REFERENDUM, REFERENDUM, REFERENDUM.... let’s reverse this FOLIE!!!

[sandyRoe]

Yes , indeed. It's time to put this madness awag

[Baldric]

Do you not understand democracy?

[Mamyalynne]

Well quite, shall I get help?

[kvalidir]

It's only democracy if it's a legally binding vote, that wasn't it was an advisory referendum with no obligation to act on it whatsoever if it's to the detriment of the country, and given that people who voted in this advisory referendum didn't have any of the facts, I would say it's entirely probable that we won't leave Europe at all.

[-Talbot-]

Where's the yawnfest emoji when you need one.

[sandyRoe]

If we had a referendum on capital punishment, for example, we'd be hanging criminals at Marble Arch again.
Referendums aren't the best way to run a country

[-SharonA-]

In,In,in!!! Stay, stay, stay!!

[naomi24]

kvalidir, //it was an advisory referendum//

That's fake news.

//This is not a debate between politicians. It’s a debate for the whole of the country to get involved in and to make their decision. It’s a very simple question on the ballot paper. You either remain in the European Union or you leave the European Union. It’s a single decision, it’s a final decision.” // David Cameron, pre-referendum.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/26/david-cameron-eu-referendum-peoples-choice-uk

[sandyRoe]

In time, and not too far away, we'll come to see Cameron as the worst PM the UK ever had.

[naomi24]

^Irrelevant.

[jim360]

What's published in a leaflet is, shockingly, not what determines the law in our country.

The referendum was advisory. Cameron lied to you.

[kvalidir]

None the less Naomi, whatever 'call me Dave' might have said LEGALLY it was an advisory referendum. If you're upset that the Tories told another lie (that is wasn't) that rather underlines why you shouldn't trust a word they say and why the vote should not stand as it's bad for Britain.

[kvalidir]

Snap, Jim :) x

[sandyRoe]

No. Here was a man who sacrificed the best interests of his country to try to hold his political party together

[naomi24]

Jim, that wasn't published in a leaflet.

[kvalidir]

Well wherever you got it from it's duff legal information.

[naomi24]

Tell that to the Guardian.

[jim360]

Was it not in the government pamphlet about the EU? Certainly something along those lines was.

As kvalidir says, though, it matters little where it was from: there was no legal basis for Cameron to say that. In fact, as we discovered very quickly, he was lying about staying in the job to implement the decision himself, too.

[jim360]

Bit late to tell it to the Guardian from an article two years ago. I'll be content to tell it to you, now.

[kvalidir]

...and even the Guardian knows it...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/23/eu-referendum-legally-binding-brexit-lisbon-cameron-sovereign-parliament