Wheel turning
I went to London this afternoon to meet my mum and two of my nieces to see a play we booked so long ago I’d forgotten what it was about. When we gathered, sombre and still shaky from this morning’s news, we agreed we’d chosen a highly appropriate play: The Suicide. We prepared to plunge further into gloom but it turned out to be …
SPOILER ALERT
… a very funny take on the lengths to which some people will go to exploit others. One scene involved the protagonist ending up in hell where he met Margaret Thatcher in the process of reorganising it because when she’d arrived she’d found that everything was free. When she introduced her red-horned sidekicks as Boris and Nigel, the National Theatre audience didn’t just laugh, we whooped and cheered. A lot of very strong feeling in there this evening.
As we came out out, London was getting ready for Pride tomorrow. I'd been too subdued to take my camera to London so this is a phone memento.
I learnt six four interesting things today:
1. A referendum vote is not legally binding
2. There will need to be a parliamentary vote to repeal the 1972 European Communities Act
3 The withdrawal agreement has to be ratified by parliament
4 A majority of people up to the age of 44 wanted to remain.
Edit The other original two may not be relevant*
5 A clause in the referendum rules states that if the turnout is less than 75% (it was 72.2%) and the vote is less than 60:40 (it was 51.9:48.1) then a 2nd referendum should be called.
6 There is a petition to parliament calling for this clause to be enacted.
*lynnfot has pointed out below that this petition seems not to be calling not for an implementation of a rule that actually exists but is a request to insert this clause into the rules. If she's right she's the only person I can find online who has spotted this but I think she is, as the wording is ambiguous and the petition dates from May.
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