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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
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]

From what I understand, the EU can scream and holler all that it wants, but until the UK invokes Article 50, the country is still an EU member in good standing and nothing has changed. Cameron has explicitly said it will be up to the next PM to handled Article 50 notification. That would delay it until at least October. The PM could well ask for a parliamentary vote. What if that vote failed to agree to invoke Article 50? Somewhere along the way there could be a call for new elections, delaying things even further. The French and Germans could be stamping their feet the entire time, but what difference does that make?

The Parliament could even vote not to invoke Article 50, then the PM could call for new elections, and the election would be a de facto referendum. If enough pro-Brexit MPs were returned, Parliament could vote to invoke Article 50. If not, they would say they have a mandate not to.

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