In 2013, the Scottish Government published their proposals for Independence in a White Paper of enormous detail - a book of 670 pages.
That is the kind of detailed prospectus which does not require there to be any second vote to legitimise a referendum majority.
So, John.... if the Scottish Government had produced a White Paper on independence as flimsy and insultingly vacuous as that produced by May, fewer pages (49) of actual text than even the piddling number of words in the only operational clause of the Article 50 Act - and do it, like her, after the vote - then in circumstances of such manifest government irresponsibility, I would have favoured a second referendum in order to confirm or reject what had been subsequently negotiated.
If your 'Brexit' ideologues were the democrats they pretend to be, they would not now proceed to conclude any Brexit negotiation until it had been properly presented in a similarly full White Paper for democratic consent - or, if rejected, accept a return to the status quo ante. The truth, however, is very clear to see. The 'Brexit' vote in provincial England and in Wales is being used as a very thin disguise for an undemocratic right-wing coup. The only people "taking back control" in England now, are the extreme right-wing of the Tory Party and their jackals in the unpleasantly xenophobic ranks of Ukip - a combination whose democratic legitimacy is vanishingly small.
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