Re "fair vote" It wasn't the advisory nature of the referendum which denied some British citizens living abroad a say, it was that they'd been domiciled abroad

Re "fair vote" It wasn't the advisory nature of the referendum which denied some British citizens living abroad a say, it was that they'd been domiciled abroad for at least certain number of years. That has long been a rule of our system. Those folks also did not get to vote in UK general elections. The vote by the citizens within the UK was largely in the end an irrelevance, due to the consequences of the Miller court case, which pushed the decision back to Parliament. It ensured that the referendum actually was advisory in fact, as well as in law. So any arguments about the fairness of the referendum are moot. The Parliament had a vote on if, and under what conditions, to authorise the sending of the Article 50 notification. They chose to allow it, and to do so with no conditions whatsoever. Giving the government of the day a "blank cheque". That is the vote people should complain of, the MPs were generally whipped, and overwhelmingly voted to grant the blank cheque to leave. The MPs could have chosen to either not pass the Bill, or attach whatever conditions to it. There would be no legal recourse if they had done so - but they may not have been re-elected.