Right now.
In London.
The four-day UK Supreme Court hearing – into whether British Prime Minister Theresa May has the right to trigger Brexit without a parliamentary vote – has begun.
All eyes focus on UK Supreme Court over Article 50 (Financial Times)
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I don’t know if this should go to Parliament or not.
However, the people have spoken. Each MP should represent their constituents and vote yes/no based on the results of the referendum in their constituency.
Any MP that votes contrary to their constituents should pay for that in the next election.
Parliament is sovereign – this is what Brexiters were asking for all along :)
A la carte democracy is what you want. The PEOPLE have spoken.
The referendum was advisory only. The people are also known as Subjects of the Crown and speak only at the Crown’s discretion. Over the past millennium, the Crown has gradually ceded sovereignty on certain matters to Parliament. Never to the people, perish the thought.
The referendum results are by local authority area, not parliamentary constituency. So there is no clear way of saying what way a constituency voted.
Thanks Malta. But it can be reasonable calculated based on averages of the underlying areas. See
https://medium.com/@chrishanretty/the-eu-referendum-how-did-westminster-constituencies-vote-283c85cd20e1#.cw6s8eq7f
TL:DR version: 421 out of 574 English and Welsh Westminster constituencies probably voted to Leave.
Separately: 7 of the 18 in N Ireland voted to leave, and even if you said 0 of 59 in Scotland voted to leave you’re left with 428 Vs 222 to leave. it’s not even close.
Yeah, but that slight grey area gives them options. As Harry says below, might be enough to get a second referendum.
Seems like a bit of a waste of time. Most commentators agree that if it did go to parliament it would pass easily with majority of Tories and even some Labour support…… Wonder will they bring the case to the EU if the verdict is upheld ;)
Yeah, certainly as it stands.
But I wonder if it is agreed that it must go to Parliament, and a particularly massive movement run by the remain campaign occurs, that it might prompt a second referendum using such grounds as the proven horse manure being used by Farage and Johnston?
Is that the case? I was under the impression that a large majority of MPs supported Remain before the referendum.
Some Labour MPs were quite luke-warm in their support of the referendum, and of the European project in general (specifically Corbyn, who offered very little in the way of leadership during the campaign).
And given that Brexit carried the day in many of the Labour heartlands, MPs there would probably be hesitant to vote for Remain in parliament, even if it was the party line.
Yeah, but the Tories would be whipped, no?
brxit was racist democracy was stolen away from the people by a bigoted majority thank god it will be reversed
welcome back jimmy :) we did our best to label everything as racist in your absence but we just couldn’t hold a candle to the great ughmeister himself.