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Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled.
This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - beginning formal exit negotiations with the EU - on its own.
Theresa May says the referendum - and existing ministerial powers - mean MPs do not need to vote, but campaigners called this unconstitutional.
The government is appealing, with a further hearing expected next month.
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A statement is to be made to MPs on Monday but the prime minister's official spokesman said the government had "no intention of letting" the judgement "derail Article 50 or the timetable we have set out. We are determined to continue with our plan".
Plebiscites only count when plebes vote the way they're told.
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Friday November 04 2016, @09:11PM
You're... looking at the proposed system from the wrong angle. Direct Democracy necessarily calls for the end of "countries" as we know them and the return to power of city-states and counties as the political backbone. Doing away with federalism and representative democracy means that decisions are made at the local level, not the "national" level, which would no longer have any real meaning. Also, most people are intelligent enough to decide most things for themselves, and the other questions aren't really a matter of intelligence but long-term thinking which is a cultural trait more than a personal one, and must be cultivated.