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Originally Posted by jaxie
It's great news for united kingdom if a referendum is just an opinion poll, Scotland need never have another then?
I'm not struggling at all TS, just explaining how I believed it would play out to those who keep putting words into my mouth. That may be irrelevant to you but I can't help that. Parliament may have to have a vote on article 50 if the supreme Court upholds the decision of the High Court. Until such time the outcome is still not certain. I don't know what the government's appeal will say or how the Supreme Court will decide and neither do you. To say that this will happen is premature. Either way Brexit will happen. Though I suspect if the high court judgement is upheld there may be more attempts to legally slow or halt the process. My guess is this was a test case for those who brought it. As I said before time will tell.
However since I keep being told people don't understand me, I don't make sense and my posts are irrelevant I might as well take my opinion off as I'm starting to feel like I'm talking in tongues.
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I don't know how they will decide, but I do know how they should decide. If they choose to bypass the law for the sake of convenience then something very ****ing dodgy is going on.
And like I said, it doesn't mean that referenda are pointless. Parliament SHOULD listen to them and uphold the will of the people as far as is possible / realistic. However that still doesn't mean that there doesn't have to be a second parliamentary vote to enact major change.
There does.
Because we have
parliamentary sovreignty.
That is the definition of parliamentary sovreignty.
That is why the high court judges looked at the law and said "Yup this is obviously what needs to happen". All of the Brexit papers making out like they're trying to "stop Brexit". It's ridiculous. They are applying the simple, unbiased, letter of the law, without any ulterior motive and one would HOPE that the supreme court would do exactly the same.