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Originally Posted by jaxie
You said I can keep coming back if I like, is there some reason I shouldn't respond when someone quotes what I've said? It seems a strange thing to say.
I have never said anyone should be given a blank cheque or that parliament should be ignored. I think that you are misinterpreting what I'm saying. What I have said is that there is a point to discuss things with the rest of the country and that is when there is something to discuss, which isn't now. You hold a referendum for a reason, it's not something you do just for fun without acting on the result. This should be clear to everyone. Unless of course some people don't want the result which was given. I think if the supreme Court upholds the high Court decision it's just going to drag the whole process out which isn't really good for anyone. I guess we will have to see what they say.
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AGain this is all irrelevant because the UK has parliamentary sovereignity. A referendum is an opinion poll of how the public believes parliament should proceed but
it holds absolutely zero legal weight. Is it morally correct for parliament to go against such a vote after agreeing to hold one? No, it probably isn't, certainly not with a clear result. The low margin does muddy the waters a bit, but that's another discussion. The point is; even if 100% of the public voted for something in a referendum, and we already knew that 100% of parliament would vote it through,
it would still have to proceed that way because we have parliamentary sovreignity.
I really don't get why people are struggling with this concept so much. I mean... if you want to start another thread discussing the merits and drawbacks of parliamentary sovreignity and suggest that we should abandon it and find another system, fine, that would be a perfectly valid debate. But it's irrelevant in this one because we DO currently have it, and parliament MUST vote for the triggering of article 50 to be legal. Maybe that stings / is crappy / doesn't seem fair / seems needless / whatever but... ... ...
you could say that about countless laws.