>With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters
>Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away.
>but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.
>And as the day wore on, the enormity of [the] step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais [...] the list grew and grew.
>The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.
>The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?
>Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?
>Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-maneouvered and check-mated.
>The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.
>When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never".
>All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign.
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