I think it's probably a case Naomi that people could have known it quite easily, if anyone had bothered to think about it properly. As it is -- as so many people have said already -- this wasn't sorted out properly, almost certainly because the referendum was *really* created to shut up the Eurosceptics of the Tory party rather than to allow the country to decide its future. In that case, it was a reckless and stupid gamble. Now, I've made clear before that I actually wanted a referendum, so I don't mean asking the public in the first place. But the way it has been set up, and conducted, both before and since the result, has been nothing short of awful in every way. Both sides struggled to campaign honestly, for a start, but more importantly we have seen the new government of Theresa May trying to rush their vision of Brexit through without challenge and without consultation in a way that is simply unsupportable in British law.
At any rate, NJ has now posted on this and I'm pleased to see his far better-informed legal opinion confirm what I've been trying to say: this judgement was essentially inevitable, and is almost certain to be upheld in the Supreme Court. As a result, portraying the judges in question as enemies of the people is simply wrong. They made what is essentially the only possible decision in law. But this doesn't strike a hammer blow for Brexit, as all the government should now do is introduce the necessary legislation in Parliament. If MPs then strike it down, take it up with them, who would be the real "enemies of the people" in the sense implied here, not the judges who have done their jobs correctly in upholding the law of this country.