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Bob · November 17th 16, 04:16 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

Optimist wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:37:17 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:53:06 +0000
Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 16/11/2016 09:13, Optimist wrote:

There's another aspect here though - the referendum. Legislation for this
had been passed by
Parliament last year. The people were told that the decision was theirs,

But who told them that? Or was the idea that it might be binding just an
assumption made by the kind of people who don't talk about trains using
a obscure format from the dark age of online communications?

The whole parliament must ratify nonsense is just another ploy by Remoaners
to block Brexit. Parliment exists to enact the will of the people, however if
the will of the people has already been made perfectly clear via a referendum
then the role of parliament is redundant in the matter. And whats more - if
parliament go against the will of the people then we're sliding into a
parliamentary dictatorship.

All UK needs to do is to repeal the European Communities Act and tell the
EU to make personal use of
a taxidermist.

Governments unilaterally reneging on international treaty obligations is
generally something that is strongly frowned upon and can have pretty
serious repercussions in unintended ways. If the U.K. expects to form trade
agreements with other nations (or the rEU), it will have a much harder time
once it has established a track record of unilaterally dumping
international agreements on a whim.

Robin