Finally, a Remainer who (mostly) gets it

[shaunbhoy]

And then there is darmy.....a Remainer who (mostly) doesn't get it!

[Mordac]

I don't believe there should be a second referendum but if there were one, would it also be advisory?



https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/...22.pdf#page=32

We don't have a constitution, so there are legally no circumstances whereby a referendum should be binding. However, if they wanted something non-binding, they should have commissioned a nationwide opinion poll. What is the point of a non-binding referendum, apart from being a massive waste of taxpayers money, and everyone's time?

[Old Greg]

We don't have a constitution, so there are legally no circumstances whereby a referendum should be binding. However, if they wanted something non-binding, they should have commissioned a nationwide opinion poll. What is the point of a non-binding referendum, apart from being a massive waste of taxpayers money, and everyone's time?

The UK does have a constitution.

[Mordac]

The UK does have a constitution.

We have an "unwritten*" constitution, which, pardon the expression, isn't worth the paper it isn't written on. What we have is implied, and based on historical Acts of Parliament (many going back to the 17th century), and even the Magna Carta.

*Some don't like to use the phrase "unwritten constitution" because all the ancient laws and Parliamentary Acts which formed the conventions we regard as "constitutional" do (or did) actually exist on paper.
Sometimes A Level history can be useful...