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But David - it was only an advisory referendum - that was the point. And anyway this is case was not about the neverendum but about the ability to trigger Article 50. The British public may have voted to leave - but they did not vote to leave via Article 50 (which establishes an impossible timetable which almost certainly culminates in the revocation of 40 odd years worth of law because the plethora of multinational agreements necessary cannot be done in two years). The absurd Article 50 process would simply subvert Parliament - and she seems to be being railroaded into it by an odd couple of EU leaders and the Daily Mail. If Mrs May wishes to pursue Brexit she can simply negotiate her way out now and take the fruits of these labours back to Parliament to make sure that the Brexit she belatedly defined is not a turkey. It is pressing the big red Article 50 button which causes the problem - and no wonder it is a constitutional doomsday device. Mrs May is extremely ill-advised to even contemplate using this route to exit the EU. What we seem to have at the moment is a process designed to sell ever increasing numbers of increasingly bonkers newspapers with scarce little legal underpinning.