Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Well, Tone was worried enough about the country's inherent Euroscepticism to shelve his commitment to a vote on the Lisbon Trophy (ie, he knew it would be rejected), so I think it's fair to say that there's absolutely no inherent correlation between the country's wider feelings about the EU and the 2008 financial crash.
Woah! Hold on. Those are two very different things. Voting for something the EU wants is very different from voting to leave it. That proves nothing.

Of course, we made a complete mess of the whole referendum thing. What we should have done is voted in our constituencies- that being the most democratic form of election, of course- and then returned OUR representative with our instruction. No argument there, is there- we the people, in our identified cohorts, have returned our instruction. One simple vote in the Commons, each MP bound by the clear view of his or her constituents.

Of course, itmay have skewed the result slightly but then if it is good enough for electing governments.......I fear the referendum has destroyed the notion of representation....