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As others have said, there is no legal requirement to leave the EU should the Leave campaign win.
However, if Leave win, then Cameron will be toast within hours, leaving the Tory party to elect a new leader. One assumes Johnson will win, although a compromise candidate, like Theresa May, could be chosen instead.
At some point the Commons would have to approve the invocation of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, and that may prove difficult (given most MPs are in favour of remaining in the EU).
It'll be a cluster fuck, whichever way you look at it.
andyp
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Right. So.
This referendum.
Is there a legal requirement to follow it?
Is there a legal requirement to initiate the divorce proceedings ASAP? Or is it a case of "let's start negotiations, if they're not favourable we're not doing it"?
Or is it really, as Leave say, a case of: "you've made your decision, we're leaving!"
Because I don't see the cunts on the Leave side having the power to do that.