If there is a second referendum ...

Lungboy

Why couldn't the HoC revoke A50 without a referendum?

Pennywise

Lungboy wrote: »

Why couldn't the HoC revoke A50 without a referendum?

Because the referendum showed a majority of voters wanted to leave the UK. It would be undemocratic to stick two fingers up at them.

Lungboy

No it wouldn't. It would show that after assessing all possible options, Brexit would potentially be too ruinous to go ahead with under WTO rules. We pay our MPs to make these hard decisions for us as in theory they should be better placed than us to make such monumental choices. And even if it were undemocratic, that still doesn't stop the HoC revoking it.

adindas

Lungboy wrote: »

Why couldn't the HoC revoke A50 without a referendum?

Keep in mind there is an overwhelming majority of MPS voted in favour of triggering article 50.

So the same MPs will vote against what they themselves have voted ??

What is the best word to describe this ??

Zero_Gravitas

adindas wrote: »

Keep in mind there is an overwhelming majority of MPS voted in favour of triggering article 50.

So the same MPs will vote against what they themselves have voted ??

What is the best word to describe this ??

Sensible. The best word would be sensible.

David_Aston

Careful Zero, sensible went out of the window with the last referendum result! For the sake of decorum, that is my opinion. Don't want to sound all Trump.

Zero_Gravitas

Pennywise wrote: »

Because the referendum showed a majority of voters wanted to leave the UK. It would be undemocratic to stick two fingers up at them.

I’m not sure anybody voted to leave the U.K. Although given the remarkable events of the last few weeks nothing would surprise me any more.

Thrugelmir

Lungboy wrote: »

We pay our MPs to make these hard decisions for us as in theory they should be better placed than us to make such monumental choices.

Not sure that an MP such as Mhairi Black offers anything that thousands of people couldn't do better. At as requisite. MP's should have real life experiences to bring to the debate. Not be political and economic text book clones.

Herzlos

I honestly think MPs should have to sit and pass some basic politics/economics exams first, and ministers should have some qualification or experience relevant to their post.

BLB53

Brexit would potentially be too ruinous to go ahead with under WTO rules

Demonstrates that the Treasury/BofE fear campaign (Mark 2) has worked eh?

If trading on WTO rules is so ruinous, USA should be near collapse by now. It has successfully traded with the EU on this basis for many years as do many large countries around the world.