We can leave the EU anytime

[Bookaboo]

Through article 50 of the Maastricht treaty:

www.lisbon-treaty.org/wcm/the-lisbon-treaty/treaty-on-European-union-and-comments/title-6-final-provisions/137-article-50.html

As they don't have to honour a leave vote, and the government could just leave anytime in the future, today's voting may as well be asking "do you like the EU, or not?"

And that would be a whole lot easier to answer!

Sorry, try link again

www.lisbon-treaty.org/wcm/the-lisbon-treaty/treaty-on-European-union-and-comments/title-6-final-provisions/137-article-50.html

However, if we did leave the EU and it went balls up then we'd be stuck as the other EU countries would need to give their permission for us re-entering the EU. It's article 49 of the same treaty :)

Sorry, a busy day and actually forgot I created this post
What I'm suggesting is it doesn't matter if we don't take the opportunity to leave now, as we can still do so in the future if deemed necessary.

I expect the EU will have a balls up of its own before that happens anyway.

And to rejoin we would undoubtedly have to go into the euro too.

If things get sufficiently bad enough for us to see the need to leave, I don't think what is involved in rejoining will be much of an issue.