As I understand it, we don't have sovereignty of the British people, we have a representative democracy and Parliament is sovereign. That's why people will still have "elites" making decisions for them. The brits have never liked being told what to do by anyone.
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Pre-2016 Parliamentary sovereignty could not decide whether to Remain or Leave so Parliament asked the people what they wanted do. They chose Leave. It follows Parliament should implement the will of the people. Simple and logical democracy at work really.
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I think it's a common view that the referendum was called because Cameron was scared of his backbenchers/UKIP. I don't think we know what Parliament's view would have been if they had been asked. I agree that because the people were asked, their decision should be respected.
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Yes Cameron tabled The EU Referendum Act 2015 making legal provision for a referendum on whether the UK should remain a member the EU or leave it. The bill was supported by MPs from All parties in Parliament except the SNP, and was approved by the House of Lords on 14 Dec 15
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I agree with that, my point was that we don't know what Parliament's view on the question was in 2016. I know they voted to have the ref., and promised to respect the vote but we don't know what their collective opinion was. They were prob "remain" in 2016, & they are in control.
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I'm not saying they're right to do what they're doing, just saying to Julia that Parliament, not the people is in control whatever they might say about representing the people.
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No, the powers vested in Parliament come from the people. The people are sovereign. Just because we have a representative system, rather than a direct democracy, that doesn’t mean the people aren’t the ultimate decision makers.
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but the people cede power to parliament though? So we can express our outline wishes every few years, but between that, they're in charge. "Parliamentary sovereignty is a principle of the UK constitution. " https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/sovereignty/ … That's my understanding anyway.
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Brilliant, Pete. Will of the people is an empty phrase, given this utter shitshow of 3 years.
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Without any doubt!
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I note they've stopped talking about the EU Army....
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What about the tax thingy.... not heard about that for a while
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There are plenty of big new ideas being proposed by the ultra-Europhile parties that rule the EU, but none of them get talked about in the UK until they are ready for us to implement.
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That’s because that’s all they are - ideas. Nothing gets implemented until it becomes law.
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.you're a disingenuous attention seeker I'm blocking. You show up on my TL when I don't follow you and you're full of provocative inaccurate nut peddling drivel. If you pretend not to understand there's no point engaging.
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Just in case they did block and couldn’t see it
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Shouting ‘yes, it is the will of the people’ does not change the fact that NOT ONE POLL since July 2017 has supported that assertion, not one.pic.twitter.com/YmzG5OrhGI
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