Yep . We can completely ignore the results . The main argument against this is that it is undemocratic and doesn ' t bode well for our democracy . In reality , our democracy is already under threat by things far worse than ignoring an advisory key word referendum . Our internet history is now completely open for the government to monitor , our current government is splitting their constituencies into multiple parts so that they will always win future elections , we have an entire house of unelected old people who have legislative power . The people who draft nearly all of our policies and work with the members of Parliament to bring them to working order our civil service are not only unelected , but also their work is not public , they cannot be held accountable for their actions , they do not change with the elections so if they are inclined to influence ministers to draft policies in a certain way there is no recourse to take against them . Basically we don ' t have a fair and free democracy currently , so ignoring one illadvised referendum doesn ' t matter a jot to me . I would rather ignore the results than enter a 20 year economic slowdown and international ostracisation , losing trillions of pounds and destroying the currency essentially ending the last vestiges of being a superpower that this country still manages to somehow keep .