Showing posts with label referendums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label referendums. Show all posts
Sunday, 20 November 2022
Friday, 23 March 2018
Why the EU referendum was flawed
If the EU referendum had been run with the same rules as Scotland’s first referendum on devolution, the Leave vote would still have won – but Brexit would not now be happening.
Monday, 27 February 2017
Why referendums and Parliament are incompatible

For the first time ever in a UK referendum, the electorate on 23 June 2016 rejected the status quo, the advice of the government and the consensus of Parliament.
The Brexit vote divided the country and pitched ‘direct democracy’ against ‘Parliamentary democracy’, with potentially disastrous consequences.
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