It's the Will of the People innit.... or is it?
Today I saw another of those tweets - this time from a Tory notable - saying the referendum is a done and dusted and so Brexit is a done deal. So.. to save my blood pressure I just need to get this off my chest.... Yes. We had a referendum and a majority - a small one - said they wanted to leave the European Union. But, and you know this already, it was an advisory referendum . The vote of the referendum is not binding . If it had been set up to be binding a simple majority would not have been enough for the major constitutional change that Brexit entails - stripping over 60 million people of EU citizenship for example. Now an advisory referendum is pretty much a state sponsored opinion poll. "Dear Mr Voter, we'd like your opinion on this one please." .. and last time I looked nobody wins in an opinion poll. All you get is an opinion. An opinion on what was on the ballot, on the day that the vote was made. Interestingly, wha...