Regular
readers of this blog will know I reject the ‘will of the people’ argument for
Brexit (see for example my post of 15 December 2016), that the result of a
crooked referendum that promised a deal that could never be delivered is a
reason for leaving the EU.
But let’s go
with it for a moment. So the ‘will of the people’ in June 2016 was that we
leave the EU. But then who elected our current parliament in 2017? ‘The people’.
Under our
system, no parliament can bind its successor so the ‘will of the people’
expressed by the general election supersedes the ‘will of the people’ of the
referendum, and the squeals of ‘betrayal’ from the Brexit fanatics are the
usual hypocritical bunkum.
MPs are
under absolutely no obligation to implement a Brexit they consider damaging to
our country. Indeed, it is their duty to reject it.
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