MPs in denial over what they actually voted for in massive numbers.

There are three important dates in recent history that MPs must reflect on in the days ahead.       

On 9 June 2015 MPs decided by 544 to 53 votes that the sovereignty granted by the people to parliament to take decisions on their behalf be returned to the people for one specific task: to take a decision on the question, Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?.     

On June 2016 there was a referendum, a peoples vote if you wish.  The result was 17,410,742 voted leave, 16,141,241 voted remain .  Every vote counted.  And to paraphrase the late Lord Ashdown, a true democrat to the last said, “one vote is enough”.     

 On 29 March 2017 MPs, having asked the people for their decision, took the formal step of voted to trigger Article 50.  Article 50 specifically states the date we will leave the EU, with or without a deal with the EU in place.  If no deal is in place, we leave with no deal.  That is exactly what MPs voted for.  That was approved by MPs when they voted by 498 to 114 to trigger Article 50.    

So far so good.   

But many of these same MPs are now challenging the result of the referendum by demanding a second peoples vote.  And many demand the revoking or extending of Article 50, the legislation they voted for in such overwhelming numbers.    

That these MPs are so dismissive, not just of the people who voted leave, but also of themselves and the decisions they took, suggests that some people who sit on the green benches are neither democrats nor parliamentarians.