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Parliament can pass the bill before the referendum, for example in the AV referendum. The great benefit doing it that way is the voters will be clear about wha
by corney91 5y ago
Parliament can pass the bill before the referendum, for example in the AV referendum.
The great benefit doing it that way is the voters will be clear about what's being voted on.
- blibble 5y agoand that wasn't legally binding either if parliament didn't want to implement it: it could have passed another act that repealed the first personally, I find the "it wasn't legally binding" argument to be sophistry of the worst kind
- corney91 5y agoYou could say that about any law though. It was as legally binding as anything else Parliament passes.
- blibble 5y agoyes which is why stating "it wasn't legally binding" like it's abnormal or some sort of important insight is disingenuous
- corney91 5y agoI don't think it's disingenuous, because there's a material difference between the approaches in 2011 and 2016. In 2011 we had no doubt about what we were voting on, Parliament had already debated it. In 2016 the vote was had with no confirmed details and Parliament then needed to work out exactly what the public wanted. They're both done now so I'm not saying this because I think the outcomes should be revisited, but I hope we can learn from them for any future referendums.
- blibble 5y agohaving a plan to execute is separate from being "legally binding" separately: the EU refused to negotiate at all until Article 50 was triggered, so what you're asking for was essentially impossible