Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving the EU?

Re:Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving th... by abpavel on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:45AM (#11985062)

Any outcome other than UK leaving the EU would go against democratically elected decision, in essence suspending democracy.

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Re:Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving th... by vkou on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:01AM (#11985136)

The public isn't ever asked to vote on wars, trade deals, etc. When it is asked to shoot itself in the foot with a non-binding referendum, overturning it would be no different.

In a representative democracy, all you vote for is your representative. The rest is politics.

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Re:Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving th... by arethuza on Monday June 27, 2016 @07:30AM (#11985477)

Exactly, if we had a consultative democracy we'd probably have the death penalty!

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Re:Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving th... by dTal on Monday June 27, 2016 @03:08PM (#11988615)

You may want to lower your voice. If there's one thing this referendum has (re)demonstrated it's that things can go from wingnut to oh-my-god-its-happening frighteningly quickly.

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Re:Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving th... by hmmdiggy on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:52AM (#11985101)

This is also my opinion, but for those downvoting/greying this comment could you elaborate why you disagree?

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Re:Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving th... by learnstats2 on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:02AM (#11985142)

I believe democracy is about following the will of the people.

As such, there are several levels I object to this comment, in particular that we have fair reason to believe the will of the people might have changed in recent days.

Stubbornly following the result of a majority vote is majoritarianism, not democracy.

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Re:Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving th... by samdoidge on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:36AM (#11985275)

Stubbornly following the result of a majority vote is majoritarianism, not democracy.

Nonsense. In the case of an A/B referendum, following the majority vote is democracy.

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