Referendums! Cuh!!Psamathe wrote: ↑26 Jun 2022, 9:54pmIt would seem reasonable that a good margin be required for a referendums of major significance e.g. 60% to 40%. Maybe the laws for such referendums should state that if such a margin is not achieved one way or the other and maybe with a minimum turnout %age of those eligible a repeats referendum will be held e.g. 4 years later. Would apply to things like EU membership, Scottish Independence. As you say, just crawling over the line is not enough when the outcome has such major impacts on everybody.Mick F wrote: ↑26 Jun 2022, 9:34pm R2, absolutely correct.
I never wanted to be in the EU in the first place, and I voted to leave given that chance. I was never asked if we should have even joined!
Trouble is, the leave/remain vote was too close for comfort.
It should have been annulled perhaps, and another vote taken later after we had all inwardly digested the result.
Maybe General Elections when they are split closely, should be re-voted upon later.
Ian
Perhaps the rule should be: no newspaps, TV or internet for one year beforehand, to give time for we various flesh robots to lose our various mass media programs in favour of our actual experience of our everyday lives, before we go putting crosses here and there on dangerous pieces of paper?
For example, how could one vote based on a fear of immigrants if one never came across one other than the generally nice ones that live and work 60 miles away where Auntie Flossy lives, picking the strawberries or nursing Aunty Flossie? As to the sovereignty thing - well, perhaps we'd come to realise that none of us apart from a certain teeny Establishment actually have any or ever will have.
Cugel