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There’s always the risk that you don’t get what you want, like the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU.
by tolien 9y ago
There’s always the risk that you don’t get what you want, like the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU.
- confounded 9y agoWho didn’t get what they wanted?
- kingofpandora 9y ago> Who didn’t get what they wanted? Scotland.
- narag 9y agoHow's that? There was a referendum to find out what Scotland wanted. It was hold in Scotland IIRC. Didn't Scots vote? Wasn't the result honored?
- tolien 9y agoDavid Cameron? It's perhaps fair to say he called the referendum expecting to win, continue his political career and quell the infighting within the Tory party and achieved none of those. While Madrid's handling of the more recent Catalan independence campaign has been pretty inept the Brexit vote sets a pretty strong counterexample to "just call a referendum, you'll win, it'll be over for 20 years". Scottish independence is a good example too, that's hardly gone quiet...