Perhaps you should tell that to this person:https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/764933549938073600 …
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That tweet is about MPs giving away British Parliamentary sovereignty to Brussels. The British Parliament gets its mandate from the people who vote MPs in - and vote them out. So the British people are ultimately sovereign. That’s the whole point of living in a bloody democracy!
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We live in a Parliamentary democracy. Taking back control was about returning apparently lost sovereignty to the British Parliament, a point you helpfully made in the tweet I linked.
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That's what leavers meant in 2016. Now what they mean is that Parliament ought to function as nothing more than an administrative body nodding through certain things without oversight or control. Suddenly sovereignty has nothing to do with Parliament.
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Simply; The People are Sovereign and any references to Parliament assume that they represent and serve the people "who are Sovereign". When the MP's agreed to a Referendum ( rightly rare occurrence) they fail to perform their duty to a disciplinary level in any other line of work
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Well said, Julia! And given that 54% of the "People" voted for parties whose manifestos ruled out a no-deal Brexit (Labour's Brexit commitment being conditioned on single market access) Parliament must prevent no-deal, in order to respect the People's will!pic.twitter.com/nkdXByCs36
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You can slice and dice the numbers as much as you like to fit your argument. The only number that matters is the 17.4m majority. End of.
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We live in a liberal, Representative democracy, so there's no such thing as a portion of an electorate that matters less. MPs are elected to serve the interests of ALL their constituents. They don't ignore the majority who didn't vote for them & they shouldn't disregard the 16m.
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No. Parliament is absolutely sovereign. The duty of parliament is to represent the best interests of the country as a whole not the 'will of the people'. You're thinking of an ochlocracy or mob rule. That belongs elsewhere in geography and time. That's not British democracy.
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Yes. If the “sovereign people” voted to repeal the laws of thermodynamics to provide the promise of free, unlimited, energy Parliament could not deliver that mandate.
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Two words: Cambridge Analytica The referendum was a fraud!
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Julia...I never thought in my wildest dreams that our political establishment we're so duplicitous, anti-democratic and out of touch. It's opened our eyes and it must change. If we don't get out on Oct 31st the whole system will collapse. That'll be a good thing.
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We certainly have all had a steep learning curve, possibly steeper for some, as some of us have never trusted MPs or the EU! Certainly attitude of media has opened minds/eyes of the People to the treachery they engender, it certainly will never be the same again.
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No doubt about it, attitudes towards MP's, establishment & MSM will never quite be the same again after 3 years of abysmal duplicitous behaviour. Even now there's the likes of traitor Grieve determined to thwart the will of the British peoples legitimate vote to leave the EUSSR.
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Yes & media interviews him from his French chateau, with his French wife & mum in law in kitchen, whilst his French educated children are playing in expansive grounds, while Daddy has his two month holiday break paid for by UK taxpayers!
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