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Originally Posted by garinda
Well I've read your posts, expessing your views on the European Union.
Though I'm not clear as to why you think people shouldn't have a right to vote on this issue in a referendum, for the very first time.
Could you possibly spell it out, as to why people should be denied that right?
Because as far as I'm aware, you haven't made that clear so far.
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The basic reason is that I do not think that referendums are a good thing in our parliamentary democracy .
We have general elections to elect an MP to represent us in Parliament according to his/her own judgement as the issues arise .
There is a wrong belief by many that we were given a vote in a referendum when we joined the EEC .
The Conservative Government took us into the EEC through a majority of MPs voting for it in Parliament .
The referendum came later when we were already in . It was not adopted for some noble principle about letting the British people have a democratic say . It was a ploy used by Harold Wilson to settle the problems the EEC issue was causing the Labour Party .