RobFZS
Member
The parliament voted for the referendum....In the UK Parliament is sovereign not the people, so the result of the referendum is purely advisory and this should have been spelled out clearly throughout the campaign. The elected government could have then chosen to ignore it or place certain caveats on the result if they felt it would not be in the best interests of the country, plus it would have been a strong negotiating tool with Brussels. However, they chose not to and we are now leaving in some woolly form or another that could well see us with many of the disadvantages of the EU and fewer of the advantages.