He said his party would support the government's amendment but only so it could try to amend it «radically» in favour
of a referendum on a «more proportional» system.
But should people really be feeling this convinced about the
outcome of the referendum with nearly four months of campaigning still to go?
He believes European investors need to be much more focused on the possible consequences
of the referendum in order to recognize the potential opportunities, whichever way the vote goes.
The complaints varied from questions about political bias in the civil service to the very
timing of the referendum itself.
Therefore, the immediate
aftermath of the referendum decision was dominated by turmoil in the financial markets and a major political crisis, which in my opinion, is still ongoing.
He seemed to, although I'm not sure whether his «not in
favour of a referendum» answer meant that he was ruling it out for inclusion in the 2015 manifesto.
There is no reason why continued support for the single market need be inconsistent with acceptance
of the referendum vote to leave.
Many on the Leave side have long calculated that, realistically, the best they could do in this campaign was to come close enough to keep open the
prospect of another referendum.
Critics
of the referendum proposal say the move is unnecessarily expensive when politicians can vote through the legislation themselves, and the debates surrounding the referendum could be divisive.
The actual
wording of the referendum has been criticized as «spin» for saying that the new casinos would promote job growth, increase school aid, and possibly lower taxes.
A lawsuit that challenged the placement
of a referendum for a constitutional convention has been tossed by a state judge.
She added that the commission would issue the timetable and schedule of activities for the
conduct of referendum subject to the outcome of the verification exercise.
I already knew my way around a breast pump, and I wasn't seeing this as some
kind of referendum on my parenting.
With the electorate increasingly consulted directly on a broad range of issues you would be forgiven for thinking that the
use of the referendum had brought about a golden age of democracy.
So why ask for yet another mandate that also required an additional hurdle to be overcome, in the
form of a referendum, before it could be implemented?
If a different system would benefit the Conservative party, do we really think they would be worried about the
cost of a referendum?
The
impact of the referendum could be significant because voting in years without a presidential or governor's race is low, hovering around the 20 percent mark.
Because of the unprecedented
nature of this referendum and the large turnout, there are good reasons to believe that the polls may have failed to pick up the true picture.
Since they can't agree, why don't they let the issue by decided by the people, by
way of a referendum?
The SNP could get away nobody noticing this sort of thing while it was in the
heat of referendum battle.
A
feature of the referendum was dissatisfaction with the current state of society, and also of politics — partly, I believe, because we expect too much from it.
Indeed much of the book - ostensibly a
diary of the referendum's last 100 days — isn't about the referendum at all.
The
stability of the referendum polls despite the long and intense campaign suggests that these factors are almost certainly playing an important role in opinions on the independence debate.
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