Well, it’s purely advisory rather than binding, and it was such a profoundly terrible idea that it might be better considered as bad advice and abandoned. Its two biggest backers, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, both stepped away from it once they realized they had actually won, and nobody—not the Tories, or UKIP, or Labour—had a plan for what to do if it passed because nobody expected it to.
Sturgeon hasn’t ruled out taking Scotland out of the UK by any means. The Scottish referendum was also just advisory. She’s head of the SNP and the SNP’s goal is still independence.
The only real question in my mind is whether Theresa May opts for the Norwegian Solution (which will disappoint the Leave voters, since they won’t get anything they wanted), or kick the can down the road to the 2020 election. Boris Johnson seems to have been appointed for the purpose of thoroughly bollixing the discussions, since he’s already insulted just about everyone in Europe.
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