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Originally Posted by martyh
Normally i would agree with you but in this instance we are having a referendum to make policy which the government will be obliged to implement .In my opinion the government should not have a policy on whether to leave the EU or not until the people have spoken .
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And where does itr state "In law" that the Government have to listen to the people?
This referendum, no matter what the result, is not legally binding.
It is political suicide for the party in power to ignore the will of the "people" and could trigger an election if the party in power did not agree with the result.
Then you will get a situation as in pre 1975 where a Labour govenment was elected on a mandate of getting us out of the then ECC, put it to a referendum, pushed for it with all their might to keep us in and we are where we are now.
Never trust a politician or anything that comes out of their mouths!