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Originally Posted by Chris
A referendum is always advisory in our constitution, even if it’s set up to automatically trigger legislation to come in to effect (which this one wasn’t), because Parliament can’t bind its successors and a future Parliament can always repeal something done by a predecessor. Referendums lean on precedent for their authority, which in the few cases they have been used in our constitution, means that Parliament enacts the result of the referendum (or does not, in the case of status quo).
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That's just it, with constitutional matters such as devolved Parliaments and supranational agreements such as EU treaties and rules, Parliament
cannot undo things.