This brings up the opposite question. Article 50 says that deciding to leave has to happen according to the country's constitution. What if Whitehall tells the EU that they're leaving and the EU says "actually your constitution says that Holyrood has to sign off, so you haven't really decided to leave?"
Obviously this is much less likely to happen since the EU's current position is "get out though", but I think the relevant point is that article 50 is not really functional law. Anything goes at this point!
No, the point to make here is it is not the EU's call to interpret the UK constitution.
You have literally no idea what you are talking about.
That is perfectly possible! What's the story then?
Perhaps I'm extremely out of touch. Are old people incapable of using newspapers, radios, and televisions as well as computers and phones? I find this notion that elderly people were, through not fault of their own, misinformed fairly absurd and quite patronising. There's no excuse, whether you're young or old, to vote on something like this without having a clue what you're voting for.
Here's a few examples:
1) a couple in my shop this afternoon. they have no internet, no computer, they actually do not have a TV either. Have a radio but the husband uses it only to listen to Test Match Special. Sole source of EU referendum information - Leave leaflets
2) elderly aunt of a acquaintance of mine, lives in a care home almost entirely staffed by east europeans and gets no sensible conversation about anything. TV is never turned to the news. Sole source of political information rabidly racist son-in-law.
3) old disabled customer of mine, poorly educated lives in a sink estate largely confined to the bedroom as the rest of her flat was until recently used as a den by drug dealers who told her to stay put. Main source of info - Leave leaflets and Leave facebook posts
Not all old people, not by any means. But lots of them. The more educated, more tech-savvy oldsters probably didn't vote particularly differently to the young 'uns.
The sorry thing about the majority of Leave voters, in my experience, is that they have no idea what they've voted for. They know we'll no longer be part of the EU, but I can't help but feel these people will feel cheated when they're being ruled by a ruthlessly right wing Tory government (compared to the current one) that will, quite likely, accept a deal which includes free movement in the EU.
Yes, this is a big problem for the political fallout, which I am trying to get my head around.
