The Government was about to break the law. She has done them a favour. You should be pleased.

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That's not her fault, that's the fault of the government that drew up the legislation. And did so sufficiently ambiguously to allow this situation to arise.

The decision today shows that if they had started the process without consulting parliament then they would have been breaking the law.

There's no chance of article 50 not being triggered. Corbyn has instructed Labour MPs to vote in favour and there's only half a dozen Tory MPs at most who would vote against (and actually I suspect even less). So it will pass. And your vote will be heard. Just in the proper democratic way, as per the laws of this country.

"It's almost like a moral decision. Except not really cos noone is going to find out," Jez, Peep Show

Exactly... and the House of Lords is "on message" to.

No decent politician will dare to deny the will of the people as the majority voted for last June.

Idiots like Ken Clarke and Tim Farron are the exception.... even Corbyn understands the importance of giving the people what they want on this issue!

So I don't get why this is such a big fcuking deal. Why are people so up in arms? Why are people on here saying "democracy is dead" and that "[people are] spitting on my vote"? It's just nuts.

I didn't vote for Leave after a lot of internal debate. And I was surprised by the vote. But the idea that it shouldn't be respected (or even that it won't) is laughable. And responses like Alexi's point towards a serious paranoia that has been stoked by the likes of UKIP.

"It's almost like a moral decision. Except not really cos noone is going to find out," Jez, Peep Show

British judges interpret British law and in a parliamentary democracy decide that Parliament is sovereign. Controversial?

This is nothing to do with voting leave or remain and everything to do with honouring our democratic processes and opposing the arbitrary power of the executive. Of course the conservatives could have put in a clause into the referendum bill that would have made all this unnecessary. I wonder why the likes of May, IDS, Boris and Gove weren't arguing to make the result binding.

Miller deserves a dame hood at the very least for services against democracy.

To be fair to them it isn't helped by "Enemies of the States" news headlines like the Mail and the Sun sent out - which were irresponsible. But anyone with a bit of common sense and reading more than two lines should be able to realise that the worst this would do is delay the trigger.

People just need to calm down. I still believe it was the wrong decision, but the world isn't going to end because we've taken it. Nor is the entire democratic process being undermined because the actual UK parliament have to debate the most important political decision being taken for years.

In fact maybe you're right, maybe people just are stupid and/or easily led sometimes. I give up!

Edited by OknotOK (24 Jan 2017 12.09pm)

"It's almost like a moral decision. Except not really cos noone is going to find out," Jez, Peep Show