I'm interested in a lot of things, including the fate of the nation, but the hypocrisy of Patriotism and Nationalism, especially in politics, is a subject I'm very interested in.

As much as you may hate them pesky foreigners Hoof it may be unwise to by-pass the Art 50 procedure with the very people who we apparently want to negotiate effective bi-lateral trade deals with.

This is just another hopeful attempt to outdo democracy and not carry out the will of the people.

Assuming the legal challenge was successful, do you honestly think Parliament would not vote to uphold what the majority of the UK voted for?

MP's like Liz Truss who was a Remaniac, but her constituency was fiercely Brexit. She would not risk being de-selected.

This is just another false hope, and a dying man clutching at straws.

For the record, I was a fierce "remainer" but do not support these efforts to defeat the spoken will of the people - no matter how strongly I disagree with the justifications for most leave voters I have seen interviewed and read on this site. A protest vote against austerity, I ask you!

However, the rules of the referendum were fixed in advance - simple majority wins. If there was evidence of electoral irregularity then a new referendum needs to be called. Otherwise, it is wholly wrong to seek to subvert the democratic process by some post-facto technical knock-out.

We must deal with where we are. No doubt we will eventually find a new equilibrium. I just hope it settles at a level more or less where we are.

I really think that any legal challenge that isn't based on demonstrating fraud or electoral tampering, is stupid for any politician to back. By the rules in place, the decision of the people, barring proof of collusion or tampering, was to leave. Even if we're talking about the percentages being so close, that's something that should have been ascertained and defined at the first UK Referendum, that a clear mandate would be required.

Politically, I can't see anyone or any party getting out of it without damaging their political viability, without at the very least presenting a second referendum, based on the outcome of a general election (i.e. If the Liberal Democrats stood in the general election with a manifesto that held a referendum on remaining in the EU and won, then fair enough).

Anything less than a second referendum, backed by support of a democratic mandate, would be damaging for the already fragile trust and relationship between the public and parliamentary democracy.