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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

Because I am afraid the one iron law of all referendums is that whatever the question on the ballot paper, people answer a different one. That is what we have seen since plebiscites were introduced into constitutional theory by Napoleon III. They were advanced under the Third Reich and have been used again and again principally to promote reactionary nationalist and populist politics.

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Reference

504 c242 

Session

2009-10

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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