Sentences with phrase «after the referendum did»

A great many of those who signed up to the SNP after the referendum did so on the basis that they expected the party to call a second vote on the UK's constitutional future sooner rather than later.

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In a televised address after the referendum, Tsipras insisted the vote did not mean a break with Europe.

Years later, after their 2004 unsuccessful referendum, the Library District felt one of the reasons for their defeat was that they didn't hold title to a driveway (owned by the Park District) which cut the Library District's property into two halves.

But Wilson said that board members were told after the unsuccessful November referendum proposal for construction of a community center that many people voted against the measure because they did not agree that a fitness center should be included.

Also on the NYC Indy Party reform to - do list: Initiative and referendum, term limits for legislators, letting voters change their enrollment after a one - month waiting period, nonpartisan administration of the Board of Elections, nonpartisan redistricting and campaign finance reform.

Immediately after the referendum I argued that «While, given its royal prerogative, it is not altogether clear whether the government would have to take note of a parliamentary vote [on Brexit], it stands to reason that since the unconventional route of a popular referendum did not produce sufficient grounds to act on, the government has at least a moral duty to listen to the opinion of the body to which it is after all accountable.»

The day after the referendum, Jacques Parizeau resigned as the leader of the Parti Québécois, as he had said he would do in an interview with TVA taped days before the referendum but not made public until after the vote.

Sheridan did so again on 21 September, after the referendum defeat.

«Taking Britain to the edge of Europe and firing the flames of Scottish Nationalism, as Cameron did the morning after the referendum, are desperate acts of survival,» the speech was to have said.

The 1975 referendum, only three years after the UK finally joined, did give a mandate for continued membership of the EC, but the organisation of that referendum had a built - in bias towards this outcome.

It did not stop after the referendum.

Marc Brunel - Walker (SE): If we do not succeed forcing a referendum in the Commons; if we fail to win in the Lords; if all other EU member states ratify the Treaty; and if an election is held later in this Parliament after the Lisbon Treaty has come into force we would be faced with the unacceptable situation of further integration having taken place without people being properly consulted.

BUT the referendum on September 18 is under UK law (Edinburgh Agreement) and states that Scotland doesn't become a independent country as soon as the election is counted but only after negotiations with the UK - and everyone hopes that everything will be sorted out during those negotiation period.

So it's possible that after some time, it becomes «politically acceptable» to ignore the referendum and Cameron's successor will actually do so.

After a generation of the dastardly European Union telling us what to do and what to think, those committed to seeing the UK leave the EU finally have — in the form of the forthcoming referendum - the opportunity to demonstrate just how much better off we will all be when we are relieved of the shackles of membership.

I think it can then develop, probably through the medium of the referendum, and it's after the referendum that you begin to address the issue of how do we give this political force.

«Of course I regret the outcome but I don't regret holding the referendum, it was the right thing to do,» Cameron told reporters in Brussels after an EU summit.

He maintained his party's opposition to the Lisbon treaty but did not specify whether a Tory government would hold a retrospective referendum on the treaty after it is ratified.

The documentary was particularly revealing, coming as it does, the day after Labour's new London mayor Sadiq Khan was criticised by the shadow chancellor for appearing alongside David Cameron at an EU referendum event.

Topline figures with changes from the last poll (which was actually done at the start of this month, so it was just after the Welsh referendum) are as follows:

Johann Lamont is to stand down as leader of the Scottish Labour party, after describing some of her Westminster colleagues as dinosaurs who do not understand the politics they are facing since the referendum.

But NOW, after a Dem wins the first Congressional election since the passage of Obamacare, you do a 180 and suddenly the election «isn't» referendum.

Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson has refused to rule out a second EU referendum - just an hour after his shadow cabinet colleague Diane Abbott said the party does not support the policy.

We do have a very big priority which is after the referendum is over we need to make sure we pull together, we get on with the job of governing whatever the outcome in the referendum...

Her sentiments were echoed by Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, who said the PM believed he was doing the «honourable thing» after the referendum vote.

Former UK Chancellor Alistair Darling is heading the campaign against Scottish independence - but what will he do after the referendum?

Jeremy Corbyn has been criticised by his own MPs after it emerged that a leaflet urging Labour voters to back Remain in the EU referendum does not contain the word «immigration».

Labour leader Johann Lamont says the Scottish government does not need to wait until after the referendum to improve support for families.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage quits after referendum win, saying: «I've done my bit, we got our country back»

Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Ms Sturgeon said Mr Cameron did not appear to want to move beyond powers already outlined in the Smith Commission, which was formed after the independence referendum to fulfil the pledge to give Scotland further devolution.

If Referendum 55 does qualify for the ballot, charter schools will remain on hold until after the election.

Yet after Brexit, Trump and the Italian referendum, we're still doing OK.

In an interview given after the EU referendum Shipman appears to suggest that he considers that the Vote Leave NHS funding pledge did make a material difference to the EU referendum result: «If 600,000 people had changed their minds, you would have had a different result.

In reality, the government is most likely to study whether there is any real demand for the opening up of civil partnerships to opposite sex couples or whether, in the alternative, civil partnerships should be closed to new entrants as was done in the Republic of Ireland after they enacted same sex marriage after their historic referendum.

We don't even know if Michael Gove will still be in post after the referendum, and if we are leaving the EU we may want to fold bigger constitutional questions into the bill of rights debate anyway.

The Referendum Act didn't say which, and Cameron refused to have any Plan B for a leave vote — so it was only after the vote that May decided to try having Govt trigger it instead of Parl.

That is entirely down to Cameron who chose not to put anything in the Referendum Bill about it (Acts for other referendums have said expressly what must happen after result) and then in the run - up to the referendum insisted (just unbelievably arrogantly & recklessly) that the civil service must not do any planning whatsoever for a leaReferendum Bill about it (Acts for other referendums have said expressly what must happen after result) and then in the run - up to the referendum insisted (just unbelievably arrogantly & recklessly) that the civil service must not do any planning whatsoever for a leareferendum insisted (just unbelievably arrogantly & recklessly) that the civil service must not do any planning whatsoever for a leave result.

Online archives show that AIQ's website didn't show up in Google searches until after the referendum.

As has been the case throughout, Vote Leave is obligated to review — to the extent it can after this long elapsed period since the referendum — all such allegations, and is doing so.