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What, Another Referendum ..... But With Compulsory Voting!
A lot has been said about another referendum, and I tend to agree that we should have another one, but with this big proviso.
It should be, that like Australia with general elections, it should be made compulsory for all the electorate here to vote in any second referendum. Most people now have a much clearer idea of what they really want, after listening to the remain or leave camps over the past couple of years.
This way we will truly know what the actual voters seek. I would add, that as well as a box on the voting slip for a 'remain' or 'leave' vote, there would have to be a third box for the 'don't knows', although I would hope that it would be virtually redundant.
It should be, that like Australia with general elections, it should be made compulsory for all the electorate here to vote in any second referendum. Most people now have a much clearer idea of what they really want, after listening to the remain or leave camps over the past couple of years.
This way we will truly know what the actual voters seek. I would add, that as well as a box on the voting slip for a 'remain' or 'leave' vote, there would have to be a third box for the 'don't knows', although I would hope that it would be virtually redundant.
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I'd go in exactly the opposite direction, by ensuring that nobody was ever allowed to vote in any election or referendum until they'd passed an examination equivalent to A-level Economics. I find it totally preposterous that people are allowed to vote on issues that can affect our economy without having the slightest notion of how economics works.
I've said for years there should be a competency test of some sort in order to earn the privilege of voting.
Not so long ago I had to explain to a 45 year old friend what a hung parliament was! This man has only ever voted Labour because "that's who my Dad voted for".
Referendums, in my view, should never happen. By their nature referendums tend to be for big decisions, and frankly the decision of whether or not to leave the EU was far too big a decision to be put to the public. We elect our representatives to make these decisions for us.
Not so long ago I had to explain to a 45 year old friend what a hung parliament was! This man has only ever voted Labour because "that's who my Dad voted for".
Referendums, in my view, should never happen. By their nature referendums tend to be for big decisions, and frankly the decision of whether or not to leave the EU was far too big a decision to be put to the public. We elect our representatives to make these decisions for us.
Referenda are what got us into this mess in the first place...
Not that there's anything innately wrong with them, but I think the British experience has proved that they need a defined place in the political system and to have appropriate rules of conduct. We don't have the political infrastructure to run them properly.
Not that there's anything innately wrong with them, but I think the British experience has proved that they need a defined place in the political system and to have appropriate rules of conduct. We don't have the political infrastructure to run them properly.
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