Originally Posted by
AltyPie
Not silly at all. You have now drawn the distinction between MP’s and voters which is something Sid did not in his original post days back which was this:
“My position was and remains that a major constitutional change should require a 2/3 majority.”
I have asked him twice whether he thinks because of this statement he thinks the Labour Govt should not have ratified Lisbon. I am yet to get a reply from him.
Your 2nd paragraph does strike me a bit like “I don’t like the result, so I’ll rubbish it”. I don’t see how you can claim to know how well or poorly informed any portion of the electorate is at any election (Referendum or General). It seems like you’re a short step away from questioning the whole idea of Universal Suffrage. Are you?
Lastly, because BFP’s pseudo-intellectual cerebral cortex will be fried if he’s got this far, concerning Brexit, people hardly ever mention that during the 2005 election campaign (which Labour won) the Labour Party said there was no need to debate the Lisbon Treaty because there would be a Referendum later. Labour won, they went back on their promise to hold a Referendum and ratified Lisbon and handed over sovereignty by doing so. They did this without asking me and IMHO this is the referendum we should all be talking about – the one we never had. All Brexit does is right a wrong. This is my opinion, part of the large reason for my Leave vote and people can disagree with me and call me uninformed if they want. As for the other millions that voted both ways, I don’t claim to know all their reasons or how well informed they were.