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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 tangomargarine on Tuesday November 08 2016, @02:29PM
If democracy can mean monarchy, basically everything can mean everything else :P
Silly me, assuming words actually had set meanings.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:12AM
At one time it was common for monarchs to be elected, mostly in the Germanic tribes. The monarch had to be a member of the right family and the electors were the aristocracy. The last example was the Roman Holy Empire, where the King of the Romans was elected by an electoral collage consisting of half a dozen or so important Princes (the ruling type, not the children type), Bishops and such.
More recently a few countries in the early 20th century voted who would be their King. Indonesia, I believe, still elects their supreme monarch with the 7 monarchs being the electoral collage. Another example was the Americans who wanted to elect George Washington as King. He refused.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:33AM
When you're talking a dozen or fewer people voting, it's no longer a democracy. I don't know what it is, but it isn't that :P Oligocracy?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"