ColinR wrote:
On 08/11/2016 12:05, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
On 07/11/2016 13:35, tim... wrote:
So why are they desperately pushing ahead with Brexit despite it being
because it's what the people voted for

But it was a non-binding advisory vote.

If the government had intended it to be binding on them, they could have
written one line into the referendum Act to say so. Which would have
also saved them an embarrassing defeat in the High Court (and, I
predict, a repeat in the Supreme Court).


I suspect that those who prepared the wording of the act (David Cameron
etc) could not conceive that the British people would vote for Brexit.
Hence they did not bother to consider if a binding element should be
included.

Yes, I think that's right. He only agreed to the referendum to get UKIP and
the Tory rightwing off his back. He never expected to lose.