ray hutstone wrote:As for the MPs, well it may have escaped people's attention but we live in a parliamentary democracy. The clue is in the name.
Well, yes the UK is a parliamentary democracy (and I for one sure wish it wasn't), but the decision was made by referendum. It's then a matter for the executive simply to implement it, and not for parliament to put spanners in the works. The fact that both have been faffing about for the last 3 years pretending to leave while desiring to remain is no fault of the 52% (and I wasn't one of them, by the way). The fact that these two democratic options live happily together in Switzerland shows just how far behind them we are in democratic sophistication.