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Blighty: If EU won't let us play at Galileo, we're going home and taking encryption tech with us

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

Re: Hypocrites

"Also, we happened to ask the opinion of everyone in the country and the majority disagreed with you."

No they didn't, that's the trouble. It was a very close split. It's customary when a referendum is binding to require a substantial majority, something like 2/3, to overturn the status quo.

And it's not customary to hold an advisory referendum and then treat it afterwards as binding.

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