Does Brexit referendum is Legally binding?

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I am a Pole, and I live in Poland, our current government is very Eurosceptic, recently I read on the website of The Guardian, that it referendun is not legally binding.
How is the will of the people is not "legally binding", I personally am for the EU, even with its errors and distortions.

I think if kept my countrymen,. if in Poland after a similar refernedum, which was by turns over 50%, Polish Sejm decided that it did not comply the will of the people, would be BIG WTF?! the next day the Polish Sejm (Parlament) building would be a pile of ashes that and all of 460 MPs would be impalement
And we would have full scale civil war

For me this BREXIT referendum was worst mistake David Cameron made, he should never allowed to it, he gambled and LOST!

He now need fulfill will of people and withdraw UK form EU

It isn't legally binding, but thoughts are at the moment it would be political suicide for a party not to follow through in a satisfactory way.

They don't have to act on it, but if they don't they will lose all votes and they will never get into office again, so political suicide. Not quite the same as the suicide-by-angry-mob you are implying would happen in Poland.

Look at the number of seats the Liberal Democrats got in the previous election compared to the current one. They got all but wiped out. Because they formed a coalition government with the Tories and basically threw their principles in the bin.

Going against the referendum would be much, much worse.

It's not legally binding, no.

And your government in Poland is soft eurosceptic. If it was hard eurosceptic, they would have made arrangements with the EU to leave by now.

I voted remain because I did the homework and realised that leaving the EU wouldn't help us with anything and would only compromise our economy.

There is still a faint hope that Brexit won't happen. We need Scotland's consent before we can leave the EU (which won't happen) and the Scots can't have another referendum for independence without our permission (which won't happen) so, with any luck, we might be stuck in the EU through our own bureaucracy.

Plus, the Article 50 has to be voted through parliament and there's a fair chance that the MPs won't vote it through.

"Article 50" must be passed before a 2 year negotiation process is supposed to begin - nobody is certain how specfically how this is supposed work



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Anarchy in the UK indeed

It's pretty much legally binding because it was voted on in a referendum.

If they don't follow up on the precepts of the referendum, the whole point of a referendum would be lost.

If, say, there was a referendum legalizing marijuana in a certain state, and the government didn't legalize it, it would have served no purpose.

It would set a bad precedent. The will of the people would have been superseded by the act of an authoritarian government.

It would lead the way to dictatorship.

The referendum is, actually, an entity which is quite close to Democracy.

I would have been against Brexit---but they would to implement it, unfortunately.