Rejected petition MPs to delay invoking Article 50 until there has been a Parliamentary vote re EU

This is on the basis that: 1.The result of a referendum vote is advisory, not mandatory 2.Parliamentary Supremacy means that parliament alone has ‘the right to make or unmake any law' 3.A decision based on a referendum result alone would wrongly confer on the electorate a direct legislative power.

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We beseech you our MPs to use your Parliamentary vote to represent us and our actual interests at home and in the world, and not merely to ratify a marginal referendum result. We ask that you consider that there is no precedent for such significant change based on such a result and refer you to the Scottish referendum of 1979 in which 51.6% of a 64% turnout voted for the Scotland Act 1978 to create a devolved assembly, this Act was repealed on the basis that the margin was too narrow.

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Date submitted 24 June 2016
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