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Old 12-06-2019, 18:31   #3372
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Re: Brexit

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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
There is no democratic mandate for No Deal. As the whole project was supposed to be about democracy, No Deal is off the menu.
Straw man argument.

We live in a Parliamentary democracy, as remainers never tire of telling us these days. The nature of our parliamentary democracy is that members of Parliament are representatives, not delegates or deputies, also as remainers never tire of telling us these days.

If parliament passes legislation that allows for No Deal -as it did in 2017 - and then declines to take control of business in order to repeal that legislation - as it did today - then the actions of our sovereign parliament have created a situation that has all the democratic mandate it requires.
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