Whatever the EU referendum result,Cameron won’t get the quick return to trade-as-normal he so desires. Instead it will be a bloody and scarring battle for the ToriesThe remarkable constitutionalist and jurist AV Dicey (1835-1922) regarded the referendum as a celebrated defence against the follies of the political class. It was “the people’s veto; the nation is sovereign and may well decree that the constitution shall not be changed without the direct sanction of the nation”.
Dicey’s mental heirs insist that the encroachments of Brussels bureaucracy and European law since the 1975 referendum on EEC membership have been so remarkable that the people have long been owed fresh consultation. And, to an extent, and David Cameron and George Osborne agree with this analysis.
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Source: theguardian.com