[AnimalMuppet]

Or, specifically, the people voted the wrong way on the referendum. Let's stop letting people vote on referendums.

You see the same thing with the EU Constitution - the voters rejected it in two countries. That can't be allowed. So we'll do the same thing via the Lisbon Treaty, but we won't let anybody vote on that, because they might vote wrong.

[mrec]

Be fair. They let Ireland vote on Lisbon, and when Ireland voted wrong they were even nice enough to let Ireland vote again.

[tremon]

Yes, the same thing happened with the NL referendum on the EU constitution. The reason people voted "no" was because they had never been asked before, so this was their first chance to have their voice heard.

That's about the only part of the article I agree with: if you're going to do referendums, then do them regularly. Referenda are only a useful tool if the public feel they really are involved in the process. Otherwise you'll have to answer for every decision that went around them.