Common sense doesn't dictate that people are above the law. What a bizarre statement.

It was Farage who predicted a recession. Why don't you ask him?

There is not a cat in hell's chance of Labour MPs agreeing to a snap election any time soon. Corbyn might, but he'll never persuade the PLP to commit hare kari.

So, what you are saying is that we should have an authoritarian leader who would crush the judiciary and opposition, change things for the sake of change and not please people?
Sounds great

The exit process was never going to be quick, simple or without risk. This is going to be the messiest divorce any country has gone through in modern history.

Lord Sugar, of course!

Knock yer socks off! You have that right....

This was always the problem. Leaving the EU is too vast a process to be decided by a referendum that was announced at relatively short notice. I'm not sure either that those who were campaigning for a referendum for years understood what an absolute minefield this area would turn out to be.

I suspect the only way a country could leave the EU successfully and smoothly would be to elect a government who had leaving the EU as the main part of their manifesto and who then spent the term of their government putting the arrangements in place before triggering Article 50 after two or three years.

Myriad reasons. The ballot paper didn't ask for them though, it simply asked about the EU specifically. If the government leave the EU but stay in the EEA and keep FoM and the EEA membership fees, technically, they've still enacted the will of the people.

We were discussing this possibility at work the other day: whether it was intent or incompetence that has made this such a shambles.

The consensus was that Cameron et al were so arrogant that they never thought they might lose.

As my grand mother used to say, divorce is no good for anyone. It is better to stay together for the sake of the children.

Mays going to call a general election next year to safeguard it.

It's posts like this that make me weep for our educational system.

The minute you allow a plebiscite majority to overrule law is the minute you introduce anarchy.

Really? Even if we lose the financial services passport and our GDP falls by 20%?

I wish I shared your certainty.

She really wont.

1. FTPA?
2. Will a divided Tory party back a Brexit manifesto?
3. Remainers won't vote for Brexit parties. TheDems will be the big benefactors here. We could end up with another coalition, a worse situation for the tories than they currently enjoy.
4. Will big business back a Tory Brexit manifesto?

So the papers keep saying. Getting two thirds of the commons to agree with her is going to be an improbable challenge though.

Indeed, the public could lose the plot in a fit of rage and vote to legalise something very unpleasant or undesirable. The legal system is designed to protect the country from this type or aberration or even from 'mob rule'.

No-one knows if they got what they wanted from the referendum vote yet. That's the problem. It's still a blank cheque.

You can't please everyone !! No point trying.. Otherwise you don't get change

Just hope you have enough tissues.

So you've now defined a referendum majority as mob rule. Brilliant.

Change for change sake is no good, especially when you are playing with your country's future. Better the devil you know I say.

We've been down that road enough times tho.. Do you think if was working??

Your waiting to hear what brexit means- because Leave voters handed over the choice to 27 European governments - that was their definition of taking control. We can ask for what we like - they decide what we get. Leave voters were told this, ad infinitum, by Remain - they just refused to listen and believed Leave lies and fairy tales.

May is doing exactly what she should. She's tried to keep the other parties from making political capital by setting unachievable goals, tried to stop die hard remainers stopping brexit , and she's dumped responsibility for the deal with Europe on the poeple who argued for the break, and told Leave voters they could have their cake and eat it.

The problem now probably isn't with the courts, or the Commons , its going to be with the Lords, who may just not roll over and accept national decline, or who may demand a second referendum . That can't end well, as there will be no majority for any new settlement, which will be worse than what we have now, and government won't be able to get another deal if we turn down what we get.We could end up in perpetual referendums, with no deal , and maximum economic decline..