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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really? You don't like how "the people" voted, so you have a re-vote?

Can we do that to?[/quote]

Yup we do it every four years.[/quote]

This was not an election, this was a referendum to leave the EU and people voted yes. I cant's see how the Brit's government can ignore the vote and fail to claim art 50. Once they do that, in two years they are out, they like it or not.  The voters cannot simply vote to go back in, they need to reapply to the EU and the EU countries needs to vote to let them in. If some voters did not realize that a referendum like this was not exactly the place for a protest vote, too bad for them. [/quote]

I was being facetious. But more seriously, nothing stops them from having a new referendum any time in the next two years.  Also, the two years is not an absolute.  It only starts when formal notification is given and even then the European Council can agree to extend the two-year period.  So I can well imagine that if the UK economy tanks in the next two years, they can ask for and would receive a do-over.

http://www.lisbon-treaty.org/wcm/the-lisbon-treaty/treaty-on-European-union-and-comments/title-6-final-provisions/137-article-50.html[/quote]

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