Showing posts with label referendums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label referendums. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 November 2022

52% to 48% = uncertainty

 

So, in a straw poll of Twitter users organised by the new Chief Twit, Elon Musk, Donald Trump has been ‘elected’ back onto the platform after being banned in 2020 for reasons we all know.

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.