We in Russia have never had any referendums ( as well as democracy ), so let me ask you one question. If a referendum was only an advisory thing and so many especially young people are not satisfied with its results, why can't the parlament just block it and prevent it from happening? The half of people don`t want this to happen, it`s bad for the country, but all your politicians keep saying that Brexit means Brexit , and it must happen. What`s the role of parlament then?
Basically it was a vote to tell the government what the majority wanted to happen (which in this case pointed to the majority at the time wanting to leave).
The government have to officially then go forward and put all the procedures in place to activate it if they agree with what the majority has said. In this case, our current government (lead by the Conservative party) was mostly full of leave supporters who are eager to get the process started. That said, it still officially has to go through parliament and other legal channels before it can begin. Parliament could block this from happening however if the majority of members there decided they were against leaving the EU but it would be a very unpopular move considering the current political atmosphere in Britain.
It’s all become a bit more complicated on how and when that will happen though as many of the main figureheads in the leave campaign have already stepped down / back. Our Prime Minister has stepped down this week and a new (unelected by the public) Prime Minister has stepped in to take his place. They generally want to start with proceedings as soon as possible but even then it’s a long two year process filled with discussions, debates, new contracts and other paperwork before we even got as far as actually leaving the EU.
However with a new general election possibly in the works, some parties are starting to recognize that the British public as a whole are currently dissatisfied with the result of the referendum, not necessarily because they feel like it was the wrong choice, but because of the lack of plans put in place, broken promises and uncertain futures etc. There’s discussions amoungst other parties to possibly hold a second referendum or even going as far as saying they’d reverse any action put in place to ensure we stay in the EU if they get voted in.
So yeah, that’s where we are right now. Parliament could stop it but generally doesn’t want to. Our current government is trying to make things happen very quickly and other political parties are trying to work out how to get the most votes in the next general election by saying they’ll take it all back and pretend it didn’t happen. Politics.
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