Posted on 10/12/2017 1:59:56 AM PDT by Nextrush
This is what I don't understand. How can they legally just drop Brexit when the people voted for it? Is it some kind of legal mumbo jumbo maneuver and/or bad politics.
I confess to not understanding the UK's version of a Constitution and how their government works.
Brexit isn't being dropped. Formal notice has been given that Brexit will happen at the end of the 2 years provided for in Article 50 (ie April 1919), and that has not changed. The uncertainties are all about the nature of the severance deal (if one can be negotiated), and the nature of the UK/EU trading and other relationships post-Brexit.
You ask about the constitution. Referendums (a device of direct democracy) are always going to sit uneasily with a constitution based on representative democracy, which is one reason we have them so rarely: and it's no surprise the outcome can be a bit messy. The Brexit referendum was necessarily reductionist: in or out. The people were not given an opportunity to cast a vote about the form Brexit should take (there are many different interpretations), and what the subsequent relationship with the EU would be. It's those issues, not the principle of withdrawal to which the UK remains committed, which are now the focus of political disagreement and of negotiation with the EU.
Wow! I’m usually fairly tuned in but this sounds way too much like politaspeak to me.
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