Quote Originally Posted by Jordy View Post
It's difficult to tell seeing as whenever surveys have been done this, they've been done shortly afterwards the cases of things like Baby P which inevitably makes their decision more bias.

Every few years there is a free vote in parliament about restoring the death penalty and it's always overwhelmingly opposed. Elected politicians should make decisions on this not the general public. Elected politicians make informed decisions, hence why we vote them in and hence why it's a democracy.

If there was a referendum on whether to have VAT, probably about 90% of the population would vote to scrap it seeing as they'd save lots of money. The other 10% would realise that the treasury needs that money to function and would therefore vote to keep it.
Let us put it to a vote then and we'll see what happens, its fair and free. On MPs, well in that logic we are also too stupid to vote in MPs and henceforth all elections should be scrapped. You say they make informed decisions, well is it any wonder why nobody gives a damn about politics anymore because why should they? - no matter what their opinions the politicians are 'always the ones who are right'.

Heres a good example of why they are not, Caroline Flint who was Labour Minister for Europe at the time told us that we shouldn't have a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty because we did not understand it. It later came out that while she was saying that and telling us it was right for Britain, she hadn't read it either.

On referendums, they would not include finance or national security. It would cover issues such as death penalty, European Union and any other issues, especially at a local level such as whether a new park should be built or a new leisure centre.