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"In four easy stages: petition of citizens; achieving a set number of signatories; trigger a referendum; application of the majority decision."
Yes, this is very like the process in my Home State (Washington, USA).
Parliament has brought forward both the British EU entry vote (1975, 67% in favor, 64% turnout) and now the Brexit Vote (2016, 51.9% in favor, 72% turnout). With Brexit the vote was non-binding. And also the margin was much thinner.
I think without having to go through more ref. a rule in place that if the margin was greater than some percentage & the percent of citizens who voted crossed a threshold, together, would trigger a flip from non-binding to binding. At that point I think a vote for Implementors to follow-on the decision needs to happen. Otherwise bureaucrats who don't understand or wanted the ref. will implement it in a very shoddy, confusing, & quietly abusive way. This has happened after the legal marijuana vote passed here.
Though PM May talks like the Brexit vote bound the Government and Parliament, as it was worded, it did not.
Revu2
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