Brexit

[DrPatrickBarry]

Very interesing comments. Those two paragraphs do sum up the situation.

Looking back, the British political system's utter failure to manage the Brexit process is striking. Unlike Ireland, the UK has very limited experience of referendums, and this lack of experience has shown. Ireland's written Constitution means that in advance of a referendum the precise legal consequences of it passing have to be spelled out.

In contrast in the UK, no detail on what form Brexit would take was given. Unbelievably, Theresa May, and a huge majority in the House of Commons, voted to trigger Article 50 knowing that it had a strict two-year time limit when the UK had yet to work out what it wanted out of the Brexit process.

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/c...-37712311.html

Ronan McCrea is Professor of Constitutional and European Law at University College London