[garinda]

Originally Posted by JCB

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 .

Fair enough.

Though to others I'm sure it will seem your view, that everyone shouldn't have the right to vote on this issue for the very first time, just so happens to protect what you believe to be right about our E.U. membership.