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It wasn't binding. MPs could have voted to reject the outcome of the referendum.

• mkl 6y ago
  Yes, but they chose not to. That's what I'm objecting to. With a 52-48 referendum vote, it seems to me that the situation is so unclear that keeping the status quo is the only sensible option.
  • djmobley 6y ago
    It was a decisive victory for Leave, and it was made very clear to everyone voting that it was a once-in-a-generation referendum, the outcome of which would be respected.
    • mkl 6y ago
      Well, the 2016 referendum doesn't seem very decisive, but you're right that the later election amounted to the population saying "yes we really mean it".
• djmobley 6y ago
  MPs would then have been voted out for overruling the will of the people. There was a referendum. Remain lost. Last year we had another General Election, with the Conservatives campaigning on a platform to get Brexit done, and they won decisively.
  • Symbiote 6y ago
    Did they really win decisively with 43% of the vote? Labour + Lib Dem was about the same amount.