June 2015: Parliament votes for EU referendum

[Monty92]

Were they having a laugh at the General Election too, when 84% of them voted for pro-leave parties?

be an absolute catastrophe. The leavers were only having a laugh anyway. Even Berni accepts we can't really leave.

[Peter]

Were they having a laugh at the General Election too, when 84% of them voted for pro-leave parties?

84% of them voted for the two main parties, just as they have in every election in british history. That tells you precisely nothing, particularly as neither party was pro-leave at the previous election or the referendum itself.

They both undertook to honour the referendum- that is all. If you think the option of voting for the hopelessly disgraced Lib Dems was a realistic one for a remain voter you really don't understand how british politics works.