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But you can't do a more binding referendum than this in the UK. There is no more binding than the Prime Minister promising to do something immediately after the vote.

This isn't like other countries which have some kind of constitutional mechanism for holding binding referendums, Parliament always has the final say in the UK.

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I stand corrected on that. But still, I think that when a large part of the populace is saying "we didn't really realise", Boris Johnson is far from happy with the fact he won, and Farage admitted in the first hours after the win that one of his primary promises was a lie (350M/week on health), it's reasonable to say "let's try this again for a confirmation".

I guess that the silver lining is that for those Americans that might be watching, they'll be less likely to 'protest vote' in favour of Trump this coming election. It'll encourage his core voters, but it might discourage the swing voters, and those are the ones that count.

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