I have spent most of the week ranting that we had the referendum in June and the government must now implement the exit from the EU. We had a referendum and the result was to leave, since there there has been attempt after attempt to delay or derail our exit. I voted to remain but the result is to and now want to see all efforts to get our position straight and leave the EU.
So for the week I've been moaning about the increased legal challenges to our political decisions and this years seems to have had more than others. We had a referendum, we decided, end of story get on a deliver.
And then this morning it struck me the decision of the judges for a parliamentary vote is in fact the right process. We are Great Britain and we have our ways of doing things and we do them properly.
In June we voted in a referendum which gave an indication and i would say an instruction to our Government to leave the EU. It wasn't until this morning that I realised no decision has been made, this choice has not gone thought the governance that our nations decisions have to go through and that is through parliament. The systems we have are the systems that make Great Britain the place it is and until parliament have voted we do not have a sovereign decision. we have to have a decision made by our elected decision makers and they must act in the way they have been instructed by the population, each constituency had a count and so the results are there for each MP to consider as well as the final result.
So this should be simple albeit a pain in the arse.
- Government get a plan together with a prospective offer,
- put it through parliament,
- Mp's listen to the referendum result, Don't look for bits of detail to try and delay the inevitable, don't tie this up in scrutiny all that can be done as negotiations take place on individual matters
- get article 50 triggered so negotiations can begin.
Technically while correct process, I think the government are right to use executive powers to trigger Article 50. We elected our parliamentarians yes, they make our decisions normally yes, only this was a whole country decision that overrides our MP's and should go straight to implementation. Cameron stitched this up by not creating legislation for the referendum to make the result binding. He knew this would happen if we voted out, not that he believed the country would.
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