Report comment

I agree with Anon @ 10.20 below:- "it is worrying to see a court being so clearly swayed by the political goal of keeping the UK within the EU".

This is exactly what is going on here with the ECJ ruling, obtained by Scottish politicians who do not respect the UK. They already had a Scotland/UK referendum which took place in the knowledge of a pending IN/OUT UK/EU referendum - and lost it.

We could have another UK/EU referendum, but quite apart from the insult to democracy in asking again BEFORE the result of the first vote has even been enacted, Leave will win again. We already voted to Leave with no deal, knowing that will mean no membership of the single market, customs union or ECJ. NOTHING has changed since 2016 to render the vote invalid.

May's legal advice on the consequences of her deal is devastating. No wonder the parliamentary vote will be postponed. The deal is a betrayal and will be the end of her career.

This political ruling of the ECJ, which as a court should be above such hypothetical questions (as correctly argued by HMG), is simply another reason for the UK to proceed with a clean exit from the EU in order to remove its misused authority in these isles.

Common law adherents have nowhere else to go in the EU, but Europhiles still in the UK have an entire continent at their disposal.