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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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Since you apparently believe referendums aren't 'a good thing in our parliamentary democracy'.
What made you suspend your disbelief in them in 1975, and vote in one?
If there isn't a rational explanation, some could say your support that there shouldn't be the same right now, in which everyone can vote for the very first time on E.U. membership in a referendum, smacks of hypocrisy.