You mean the motivations for a referendum? Surely that's just to appease Joe Public who bleats about not having any say in how things are run. Then when it comes to it apathy reigns.
People always seem to think they know better and can see what's wrong with the world. What they often don't get is the "bigger picture". I don't think anyone at all could possibly get that, even those who's job it is (I include politicians in that), and people will vote based on complete lack of understanding and knowledge (apart from those on this forum of course... :-) ) and will vote according to their particular flavour of misconception, or personalities, or their degree of some sort of -ism.
We really should just let the politicians and their advisers do what they think is right rather than insisting on having our say. Despite everything, I do quite trust our democratic processes.
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