[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Agree it was a major faux pax, I didn't like his bullying tone

Perhaps he would not have needed to say anything and/or as much had the 'out' organisations and the Cabinet Ministers in the 'out' campaign respectfully asked the USA first, if the UK could get a quick and really good trading deal if the UK left the EU, rather than them just assume, take it for granted and publicly state it as so in their campaign.

[bots]

The referendum is not binding. However, the government would be on a suicide mission if it chose to ignore the will of the people.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

The referendum is not binding. However, the government would be on a suicide mission if it chose to ignore the will of the people.

It is binding, this is not a information seeking exercise,the govt have clearly stated the people will decide in this referendum whether the UK remains in the EU or leaves.
The govt have handed the whole responsibility of the decision to stay or leave to the voters only.

It is no longer a decision then for govt, if we vote to stay we stay and if the vote is to leave we leave.
They have put no conditions on it even as to turnout,or majority or how many UK Nations vote for or against staying.

This is a fully binding referendum on the govt,no matter how close or how wide the result either way.

[the truth]

you cannot just vote you have to apply to vote, that stinks too, millions wont be aware of this

[the truth]

yes but usa didnt wait 3000 years to merge 30+ countries with 1000s of years of profoundly different languages, laws, currencies, resources, histories, cultures etc etc etc
the usa did it from the grass roots up with a tiny 6000 word constitution which worked....try our 70,000 one packed with more laws than any politician has ever managed to read let alone understand or implement