O/T Democracy

[vaterland_miller]

No Rolymiller, you have your facts wrong if you are talking about opinion polls. In the UK we are not yet governed by opinion polls. The majority that matters is the one in the official referendum. No one knows what would be the outcome of another referendum were we (heaven forbid) to have one. The referendum was required by a bill that was passed by both houses. The government of the day agreed to implement the democratic decision of the referendum. Article 50 (with the clearly stated time scale) was invoked via a bill passed by both houses. Therefore Brexit is the will of parliament and it became the job of the government to get the best deal possible. If no deal was possible, the effect of invoking article 50 was that we would leave the EU without a deal. If parliament doesn't have confidence in the government, it should have called for a general election via a vote of no confidence - that is how it works in our ancient and successful constitution.