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Originally Posted by Chris
I think that would be extremely hard to achieve in our political system. Referendums are still a novelty in our constitution. Even their implementation crashes headlong into the whole concept of parliamentary sovereignty. An open, honest discussion grounded in reality about expectations might work in the Swiss model where there are more referendums than you can shake a stick at, on narrow issues, all the time. But we have only attempted to use them on major constitutional questions that are highly contentious by nature.
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That's not an excuse to stumble from chaotic event to chaotic event that could be absolutely foreseen, and blaming either people who voted to remain or the private sector for being unable to predict the outcome of wide ranging discussions years in advance.