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Originally Posted by Mick
Not trying to be rude here but am I speaking a foreign language? I have said twice now, now third time, that Parliament already took part in a democratic process and it was voted 6 to 1 to hand the decision back to the people via another democratic process. I am well aware it is not binding, but then you got MPs saying it is, whom am I to take more notice of, these are the law makers after all ?
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I think the issue here is what would you have happen? The problem as I see it is that they didn't make it legally binding (when MPs say it's binding I assume they mean politically). That's a mistake that we can't rectify now.
The judges can only deal with the law. They can't take public mood into account, it's not their job. So whilst I agree with you that it's both morally and politically right for the Government to enact Brexit the law says it doesn't have the power to do so. The judges probably made the right decision.
The next question is if that law is correct. I believe it is because the alternative is that the Government can revoke acts passed by Parliament without a Parliamentary vote. Now in this case that isn't a major crisis because we know she has the public behind here on that. However the law and Parliamentary process is technical and doesn't allow for exceptions such as that.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
It really depends by what percentage they voted to leave and the strength and positions of the other MPs. In Richmond, Zac Goldsmith is likely to be re-elected but his constitutents voted 72% to remain. People vote for other things apart from Brexit.
And of course, opinions change. We saw oday that many Asians who were targeted by Vote Leave have felt they were betrayed as Indian Sub-Continent work visas have not increased and they feel this threatens the viability of Indian restaurants in the UK. The growth of hate crime post the Brexit vote and steep rise in imported ingredients costs due to the weakened £ has further eroded support from this demographic.
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It's not going to happen unless they have some significant cover. Many Remainers accept that their MP should vote for Brexit because of the referendum rather than have this default to what their constituency voted for. There would need to be a material change in the situation as well as a significant shift in public mood for this to even be considered by the majority of Remain-backing MPs.