TheBossRossThe entire text is a devastatingly factual analysis after 2 years of #Brexit.
"It is rare for a country to voluntarily impoverish itself. But the British have chosen to do so."
AmandaWright
The WalrusThe thing about that is, "the British" chose no such thing.
As you know, there was an opinion poll, which BY LAW was not a decision.
After that, it all went sideways, in constitutional terms. Major decisions are made by MPs voting. They didn't vote on whether or not to leave the EU.
As the Supreme Court ruled in retrospect, Theresa May decided we would leave the EU. Did she have the constitutional authority to do that to 65 million people?
My guess is NO.
Timo@TheWalrus @TheBossRoss @ACAElliott MPs passed a one line law that discharged the authority to make a decision about leaving the EU to Theresa May. This utterly cowardly decision by MPs was one of the worst in a whole series of constitutional vandalism that defined Brexit, and had some undertones of how German MPs in 1933 passed the enablement act that passed power from parliament to Hitler.
@TheWalrus While the referendum was advisory, its outcome, you could argue, was an expression of what voters wanted. The fact that there was no quorum (minimum of people who need to vote / of citizens who need to agree) was a parliamentary decision. Yes, the decision was a poll rather than binding. So while I understand your issue with the word 'decision', each vote at the referendum was one. A decision to endorse or oppose Brexit.
Phil Thane ✅@TheWalrus @TheBossRoss The problem is we, 'The British' have gone along with a disfunctional election process, a largely ceremonial parliamentary system and an elastic constitution for centuries because it sort of worked and we were complacent. Now when it has clearly failed we have no means to correct it. #UK #Politics