Re: The Great People's Vote "Charade"
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So, it appears that Parliamentary sovereignty does not mean you have to respect the will of the people or the result of a democratic referendum.
The referendum bill was very clear in that it was advisory and the only obligation placed upon the government was that they had to consider it when forming policy
The government could have made it legally binding when drafting the Bill but for whatever reason they chose not to
The phrase “will of the people” seems to have been adopted by the leave campaign from as phrase use in Nazi German propaganda