Less than 10 months ago:
Record scratch, jump cut to the present day:
Let’s just hear that again.
“The key thing here in terms of whether someone should have a referendum, if we just think back to David Cameron back in 2013, he didn’t really want an EU referendum but he bet the entire farm on an EU referendum and lost.
And therefore if we disagree with the ends, let’s not facilitate the means, when we’re principally against it.”
Or in other words “we should not allow votes if we might lose them”.
We suppose we should commend Ian Murray for an unusual burst of candour. But we cannot think of a clearer illustration of the failure of a democracy.
And with England having 80% of the votes already, the UK didn’t even need to bother passing an Enabling Act.
