Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
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....
You could hardly hold a referendum in 2016 on different terms to the one we had in 1975, p. That would be ridicules.

Ultimately, our membership of the European project lived by the sword of plebiscite, so if it was to die, it had to be by the same means. The precedent was set.

Oh, also, on the funding thingummy.

https://order-order.com/2018/03/26/r...ave-far-worse/