Excellent research Rita. Thank you.
"Government" - look up the definition and it will cast a different light on how some folks are reading it.
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rita sherry wrote: I dont believe Parliament had a vote on the in or out question. They voted on the issue of whether to hold a Referendum and the result was 6 to 1 in favour agreeing that whatever the decision of the people they would accept it MPs of all parties, with the possible exception of the SNP, appear to be supporting the decision of the people it is the detail of the terms under contention. We shall all see.
Rita
dcoombes wrote:You can argue forever about the legalities of this but look instead at the practicalities.
The referendum asked the simple question, "LEAVE or REMAIN" with no conditions or provisos attached, and the will of The People -- democratically expressed -- was "LEAVE".
The Government and Parliament are not bound by this result -- but they will soon have to show whether or not they are prepared to carry out the will of The People.
If any MP wants to argue about terms and conditions, and then use this as a reason to prevent the triggering of Article 50 then they (individually) are displaying contempt for the will of The People. If enough of them do this then that will trigger a General Election and most of those who are seen to have blocked Article 50 will not be re-elected.
Do you think any MP is principled enough to commit electoral suicide?
Assuming that the Supreme Court upholds the decision of the High Court then Mrs. May will carry on as normal. When she's ready to trigger Article 50 she will call an emergency debate to demand that Parliament gives the O.K. and she will make the outcome a "vote of confidence" in The Government.
600+ MPs will spend the next three days poncing about making verbose statements, points of principle and disagreeing about "the details" for various arcane reasons and then, when the Division Bell rings, they will look to their wallets and vote it through.
Never, ever forget "An MPs job is to get re-elected".
Dave.
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