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Ten reasons why it is not undemocratic for MPs to vote against invoking Article 50. Please use or share as you find useful.

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1. MPs have a duty to do what they think is right and in the best interests of the UK.

2. The referendum was not an election, the result of which could be reversed at the next general election.

3. Democracy does not begin and end on a single day. People change their minds in light of new information and it is childish to hold them to their first answer like gameshow contestants.

4. Large numbers of people were denied the right to vote in the referendum.

5. The referendum result was close, and insufficient for such a large, irrevocable constitutional change.

6. Parliament had clearly decided that the referendum was advisory.

7. It was and is unclear what leaving the EU would mean. People were forced to vote blind.

8. The 2015 Conservative Party manifesto was clear that whatever happened, the UK would remain a member of the single market, which is not the government’s plan.

9. Two of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, and the UK leaving would amount to them being dragged out against their very clear democratic will.

10. The electorate was misled. Deliberately and repeatedly misled.

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We cannot attribute this list to a writer so please, if you recognise it we thank you for the contribution.

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The download includes a set of short bullet points for use in a letter.

 

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