I think in practice the Queen will be guided by the Privy Council, of which obviously government ministers including Johnson are members of, but I partly heard something this morning saying only three Privy Council members had been briefed in this move.@Sue. I can't see it's unreasonable to have a second referendum. Numerous leavers said it would be easy to negotiate a deal: they were obviously either ignorant of tge facts or liars; now we know they were wrong it's time to reassess the situation. Of course one may take the view it was the incompetence of the Tory government that messed up Brexit but as I didn't vote for them that's not my cause - wouldn't it be a shame if the opposition got in because the right wingers got split between the Tory and Brexit parties at the next election? We have a parliamentary democracy, parliament has determined with their knowledge of the situation that a NO DEAL Brexit, not Brexit per se, is going to be a disaster for the UK. I don't see anything undemocratic with that compared to the attempts by a privileged, public school, prime minister, who was selected by a minority of Tory party members, with no mandate from the general public to block parliament from operating. Let's either have another general election or referendum. Things have changed over three years.
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