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Originally Posted by garinda
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.
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I don't see any hypocrisy in having voted in a referendum in 1975 and in this year .
To think that referendums ought not to be part of the democratic system in this country , but to vote in one since I have been given the option is not contradictory .
If there were a referendum on the EU in 2013 I would hopefully use my vote , but , unless I have changed my mind by then , I would still be against referendum in principle .
I don't believe that party politics should have the place they have in local government . That doesn't prevent me from voting in local elections .
I have to live and act within a system as it is , though I might prefer it to be otherwise .