Saint posted:If the Government says it's position is leave but a Tory constituency voted to stay … how should their MP vote?
Depends exactly on what they are voting!
Assuming we are talking about voting on a leave deal, then the MP should vote in accordance with whether they think it will be best for ALL their constituants. It is (theoretically at least) no longer a leave/remain vote as the current situation is that we are leaving. What the country should now be voting on is whether the proposed deal is good for ALL people or as big a majority as possible and without disadvantaging anyone.
Not saying it will be easy to find this common ground, but that is why it should have been a cross-party discussion from the outset.
Any one party trying to do it by themselves was always going to be doomed to failure because they would inevitably see it from their own point of view and miss (quite possibly unintentionally) aspects that other views have.
From the moment the result was known the focus should have been 'Right then, how are WE going to manage this as amicably as possible?' It is possible we might still be sitting here today not having left yet, but the reasons for that would be more to do with the complexities than the current in-fighting and sheer hatred!