How to get out of a gigantic mess - of Brexit, citizens assemblies, and popular sovereignty
(World News UK)

The UK is in a mess thanks to an ill-defined `Leave´ option in the Brexit vote. More genuine popular sovereignty could have prevented the mess - and could yet get us out of it. Image: Anti-Brexit demonstration, July 2016. Flickr/Andy Worthington What do `we the people´ think about Brexit? A simple enough question that the referendum in 2016 answered definitively? The referendum result is as striking for what it doesn´t declare as much as what it does. In a vote between Remain and an undefined Leave option, Leave won. But the UK cannot leave the EU in an undefined way. It has to leave in a specific, determinate way. How far there is a majority for leaving on any specific set of terms is...