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Originally Posted by reece(:

Can leave stop acting as if we're of no right to an opinion on the matter now that we're leaving. The 15m people still feel passionately about something and shouldn't need to keep schtum on any accord, it makes debate redundant without opposition.

16 million reece and for sure leave voters would have been screaming on and on had this been lees than 4% the other way.

However this court action is not about stopping leaving, it is about the right to decide when and how and by who.

It should be elected MPs of all parties in parliament that should decide the timing and the process in my opinion and not just the govt of the day.
This will affect all govts of all colours in the future and so all MPS in Westminster should give consent.
All that was given consent to by MPs in the EU vote for the referendum was to hold one, not the detail of whatever transpired following the vote.

Anyway what an irony there would be were after whatever decision the Supreme makes on this, if this was then taken on appeal to the European court to decide the issue.
There could be a fair way to go yet.

If anyone has been holding up the leaving process, it is the govt and Theresa May, she likely could have had passed already the timing of triggering article 50, had she allowed a parliamentary vote.
Then also worked to gather together all the consensus for a smooth leaving process, had she properly consulted all other parties,(including UKIP, without who there would for sure have been no referendum in the first place), and their MPs elected to parliament.
She is actually herself creating most of the problems.