Rejected petition Vote on whether to accept the referendum result.

The EU referendum result does not have to be accepted. The referendum was advisory rather than mandatory. It was not legally binding. We the undersigned call on HM Government to vote in the House of Commons on whether to accept the result.

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The legislation did not provide for the referendum result to have any formal trigger effect.

We provide the below site as a reference: http://blogs.ft.com/david-allen-green/2016/06/14/can-the-united-kingdom-government-legally-disregard-a-vote-for-brexit/

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There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133540

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Date submitted 25 June 2016
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