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Referendums in the UK are, legally, glorified opinion polls and so any resulting democratic mandate is spurious.
by padolsey 10y ago
Referendums in the UK are, legally, glorified opinion polls and so any resulting democratic mandate is spurious.
- pmyteh 10y agoThe mandate is as strong as mandates ever are in a democracy. But the cost of ignoring it is political, not legal.