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Originally Posted by SV650rules
So you are arguing against yourself again, if no referendum can be binding in UK then original referendum that kept UK in EU was not binding either. Ted Heath took us in illegally in 1972, but Wilson tried to belatedly legalise it in 1975 with a referendum on ' whether UK should remain a member of EEC' that should have happened in 1972 but Heath did not hold a referendum because public opinion was about 70/30 against joining ( and that was just joining a pure trading bloc that was later to turn into a meddling micro-managing political superstate) .
Once you start all this disputing of referendum results you open up a massive can of constitutional law worms.......
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There is no constitutional requirement to hold referenda so there was nothing illegal about the Heath government signing the treaty of Rome.That is the job of government ,to govern on behalf of the people as long as they have the consent of parliament.The Wilson government took the view that they would hold a referendum which they did but they didnt legally need to. As an interesting aside to all this, we joined Nato without a referendum which is a treaty that could well result in us being required to go to war to defend any other Nato member.Should we hold a "peoples vote" about Nato?