EU referendum result is not legally binding

[Amber]

Would they have said the same if the result had been the other way round? Both sides told porkies sfter all

The problem is that the stakes for leaving are so much higher than those for staying - for a start (and living in Coventry through The Troubles I am not going to forget this in a hurry) the Good Friday agreement in NI will become invalidated as it is dependent on EU membership, and Ireland will end up with an EU border running through the middle of it. Areas of the country dependent on EU grants (and astonishingly some of these people think that they can keep them!) will need to be basically disentangled and projects stopped. That is before you even look at the enormous costs, both financially and in administrative/legal/bureaucratic time, of trying to extricate ourselves from Europe. It is going to be a spectacularly heavy burden for the next goodness-knows how many years, and none of the bunch of liars who sold it to people is going to have anything to do with it. Private Eye readers will have seen the spoof column by Boris Johnson this week, including:

'Cripes and double cripes! This really wasn't in the script at all! It was meant to be crowds cheering me outside the house, as Mr Gallant loser, shouting, "Bo-ris, Bo-ris, Bor-is, in, in , in''.

Given the astonishing power vacuum this has left, and the knack the main protagonists have displayed for disappearing into a black hole one by one, I can see why all legal avenues are now being pursued to prevent it happening. As I said on another thread, we are now in constitutional crisis; and if political 'leaders' aren't there to do any leading, then I guess it is down to the lawyers, the Church or the Monarchy to bail us out. Oh happy day.

[Stroller]

Would they have said the same if the result had been the other way round? Both sides told porkies sfter all

The fact that the "leavers" who were in a position to implement what they campaigned for all ran away as fast as possible without taking a single action towards their brave new world is relevant.

[Catseye]

Parliament should make final decision on whether to leave EU, barristers say.

More than 1,000 barristers sign letter to PM arguing referendum result is advisory as it did not set a threshold for leaving EU.

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[Proud_Dad]

Would they have said the same if the result had been the other way round? Both sides told porkies sfter all

Back in May when Farage thought Brexit would lose he said

"In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the Remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it."

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Unfortunately at the time, Cameron (thinking that Remain would win) insisted that there wouldn't be a second referendum.

[mystery]

And he also banned any scenario planning for a "leave" majority - is that true? If so, is he such a hopeless optimist? And if so, Leadsom should welcome him into her cabinet as one of her statements of intent is to "banish all pessimists", according to the BBC.

"Rather the revealing her vision for Britain’s future outside the European Union, the junior energy minister who received 66 votes from MPs in the first round of voting on Tuesday, promised to “banish the pessimists” and prosperity for every corner of the country."

Good job the speech marks are in the right place or she would have been promising to banish prosperity too.