May rejects 'fascist' Blair's call for second EU referendum
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So the Irish (and the French and Dutch, who have also been forced to retake referenda by the EU after voting the "wrong" way the first time around) imagined it, did they?
The high court has decided the government does not have the power to trigger article 50 without consulting parliament, so what happens now?...
...Three senior judges ruled on Thursday that the British government does not have the authority to proceed with the UK’s exit from the European Union without the approval of parliament. A legal challenge to the prime minister’s power to trigger article 50, the clause that formally begins Brexit, has proved controversial since being launched in the aftermath of the EU referendum vote earlier this year...
...The government said the decision to leave the EU was taken by the public in the referendum on 23 June and that its executive powers, under the royal prerogative, were sufficient to give notice to the EU on behalf of the cabinet. But this was challenged by the claimants who said that the referendum was merely consultative and only parliament had the power to decide.
This will go right to the heart of how the British constitution works: whether MPs should vote according to the wishes of their constituents or in their best judgement (leaving the electorate to decide whether to keep them in a job at the next election).
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/03/high-court-brexit-ruling-what-does-it-all-mean
we will be running out of popcarn loooooong before this plays out
...Three senior judges ruled on Thursday that the British government does not have the authority to proceed with the UK’s exit from the European Union without the approval of parliament. A legal challenge to the prime minister’s power to trigger article 50, the clause that formally begins Brexit, has proved controversial since being launched in the aftermath of the EU referendum vote earlier this year...
...The government said the decision to leave the EU was taken by the public in the referendum on 23 June and that its executive powers, under the royal prerogative, were sufficient to give notice to the EU on behalf of the cabinet. But this was challenged by the claimants who said that the referendum was merely consultative and only parliament had the power to decide.
This will go right to the heart of how the British constitution works: whether MPs should vote according to the wishes of their constituents or in their best judgement (leaving the electorate to decide whether to keep them in a job at the next election).
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/03/high-court-brexit-ruling-what-does-it-all-mean
we will be running out of popcarn loooooong before this plays out