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Re: Brexit discussion
... all of which is to ignore the elephant in the room, which is that sovereignty rests with the Crown-in-Parliament and everything short of that is, ultimately, only advisory in nature.
Our system doesn’t rest on a written constitution, it has evolved over a millennium and referendums are a very recent and novel imposition on it. It isn’t surprising that nobody quite understands exactly how a referendum result fits into the bigger picture.
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