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Originally Posted by JCB
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 .
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Ah, so unlike Blair, Brown, and Cameron, who all at one time said they'd give the British people a referendum to decide this issue, you don't believe in them?
Denying others the right to have their say on European Union membership, for the very first time, has nothing to do with protecting the current status quo, because you just happen to support it.
Fair enough.
Did you vote in the 1975 referendum, when the country was asked whether they wanted to remain in the then Common Market?