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Originally Posted by Chip
I am convinced that Brown would have ignored a NO vote if he had been forced to have a referendum. He would have found a way out....
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I write this as an opponent of Labour's devolution: In the late 1970s the Labour Government held a referendum in Scotland on setting up a Scottish Parliament (I believe Labour were forced into doing this because they needed the votes of Scottish so-called 'Nationalists'). There was a narrow 'Yes' for the Scottish Parliament but the referendum result was invalidated because not enough voters had participated in it (i.e. a minimum turnout of about 65% of electors voting had been built in to the Commons legislation facilitating the referendum).
Would Labour again try to make a referendum vote on the EU/EU Treaty conditional on a high turnout of voters?