"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote in message
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On 09/11/2016 16:31, tim... wrote:
But it was a non-binding advisory vote.

Oh come on

The Tories are implementing it (because it was voted for), because to do
anything else would see them lose considerable support to UKIP at the
next election.

They are following the result of the referendum because politics forces
them to. not because they are legally required to do so.

I realize all that. But this, in turn, is only because they didn't explain
in the first place that it wasn't intended to be binding.

But they did explain

see the conversation elsewhere about the contents of the leaflet HMG spent
12 million (was it) sending to every household

that that leaflet didn't reflect the act that they passed doesn't give the
act (political) primacy here

IMHO it is the information in the leaflet that the punter's believed, with
*every* reason to do so.

tim