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[quote=Anonymous][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]

By reading art. 50 it is not clear to me that they can simply do another referendum and be done. the EU is not pressing for the art. 50 notification to be done as quickly as possible (both Juncker and the foreign ministers of the 6 founding countries did that yesterday), they do not even want to wait for October. Once the process is started, the treaties stop being effective after 2 years (UK is out) or the Council can give an extension but this is just for the negotiations. not to keep the country in endlessly. art. 50 expressly states that if a country decides to come back, it needs to reapply under art. 49 (so just a normal application, that will be evaluated in time).  The UK government could in theory ignore the referendum, but I can't see how this is feasible.  once the notification under art. 50 is given, it seems to me that there is only the way out and a country cannot just unilaterally take it back. [/quote]

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