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Originally Posted by Pierre
Have IQ’s suddenly dropped on this forum?
A second referendum, which won’t happen but if it did, would have to take place before March next year. Also a bill would have to passed in parliament to repeal the withdrawal bill. Or at least to say if the country voted to remain to repeal the withdrawl bill.
I don’t see that happening in 5 months.
Therefore we will leave in March with, or without, a deal. Any second referendum would have to take place when we’re outside of the EU, which would mean having to negotiate re-entering the EU. Which would mean joining the single currency and a shed load of other things we opted out of when we were members.
We are leaving in March 2019. There is nothing that can be done to stop it. It would be unlawful.
Failure to grasp this concept is mind blowing.
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I don't think this is one of the bigger issues facing a second referendum. As you've said elsewhere the law could be changed and the EU is hardly new to fudging things if they want to do so. The referendum would probably require a delay to Article 50 as a prerequisite but I think they would get it. We would also need our Parliament to change the law but that would be easy, you don't need a complicated bill. Just a few lines revoking the previous one. Parliament can work super quick if it needs too.
The most likely second referendum scenario is that May's Brexit deal is voted down in Parliament and now we have No Deal as the default prospect. Then somehow (this is the most unlikely part) the government decides that this '
isn't what people voted for' and puts the question out to the country. In this case they ask the EU for a delay and the EU grants it on the condition that this is not a delay to reopen the deal talks but to decide if we're staying or leaving without any deal. I suspect the EU would like that scenario.
The bigger problems I see with a referendum are: 1) Who actually calls it and why? and 2) If Remain were to win then what? Huge problems unless it was an overwhelming victory.
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Originally Posted by djfunkdup
+1 .. They should be put in prison for being a threat to our democracy ..
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Prisons are already overcrowded. You'll need quite a lot of new prisons tbh.