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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
In my post number 81, I cited the fact that the question would not be a simple 'in or out'....it would be framed in such a way as to bamboozle the majority of those who would cast a vote....and you are right about the politicians mobilising the powers to skew the vote by their perceived 'authority'.
As for the plebiscite.......well isn't that just another posh word for a referendum ( from the latin plebis - being ordinary people, and scitum - decree........law of the common man).
I think that many people can see the EU's creeping political ambition. Trying to influence and take over areas of our lives that we feel we should have sovereignty over.
If we are going to allow Brussels to make the law, then why bother having a Parliament at all?
What worries me most, is the fact that whatever these faceless bureaucrats do, we have no right of redress...they are unelected. So they are, in effect, a law unto themselves.
They cannot be ousted no matter what they do.
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There's been a major shift in public opinon, ever since the expenses scandal.
We now know politicans aren't our 'betters', and necessarily working for the people they represents' best interests.
Much, if not all of the trust, has gone.
On such an important an issue, arrived at by stealth, the people should be allowed to trust their own judgement, and decide their own fate.