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As a side note, I don't believe that the Brexit decision is legal under UK law, as it's a parliamentary democracy, and as such the referendum was non binding. For a decision like this to be made, parliament has to vote on it, and as far as I'm aware, parliament has done no such thing yet.

well you haven't been paying much attention then, as Parliament voted to allow the Government to invoke Article 50 in early 2017

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/9/pdfs/ukpga_201700...

These people would disagree... https://twitter.com/a50challenge

Can someone summarize what are their arguments?

(I'm not a lawyer, nor am I member of that group.)

Essentially, the referendum was advisory, an interpretation confirmed by the Miller case. The act passed in response to that case does not include a clear decision to leave the EU. Thus, the Article 50 notification made in 2017 was not in compliance the UK constitutional requirements.

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