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referendum on Europe Archive
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A referendum in Greece?
Posted on 04/11/2011 | No CommentsIt is hard, at the time of writing, to know what to make of the suggestion that there should be a referendum in Greece on the terms of the bailout agreed by the eurozone governments. The idea was floated by the Greek prime minister George... -
Don’t bind my hands
Posted on 24/10/2011 | No CommentsIn the 1997 general election, Conservative party leader John Major was reduced to pleading with his candidates who wanted to rule out, for ever, British membership of the euro. In a theatrical gesture at a press conference, he declared: “Whether you agree with me, disagree... -
How to make a referendum on Europe fair
Posted on 24/10/2011 | No CommentsThere is a debate in the House of Commons this afternoon on whether to hold a referendum on EU membership, called by the eurosceptics who, of course, want Britain to leave. The motion in the House of Commons is non-binding, but nevertheless is an opportunity... -
Who votes for the US president?
Posted on 29/09/2011 | No CommentsThis blog has reported previously on the American presidential election system and the way it represents the country unevenly, by starting the primary process in one small town in Iowa. There is controversy between California and Nevada about another uneven aspect, the way that the... -
Déjà vu all over again
Posted on 25/08/2011 | No CommentsDuring the 1990s, the political debate about Europe in Britain was polluted by Sir James Goldsmith and his Referendum party. (I have thought a lot about which verb to use in that previous sentence.) The demand from Sir James was for a referendum on EU... -
A turnout threshold for referendums?
Posted on 10/06/2011 | No CommentsMy first reaction when I heard of the proposal in the House of Lords to amend the EU Bill (scroll down to column 281) so as to require a minimum turnout of 40 per cent before a referendum result was deemed valid was to be... -
What the AV referendum debate tells us about a future referendum on EU membership
Posted on 18/05/2011 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming The referendum on changing the electoral system for the House of Commons has divided the world of politics but also, in another way, has united it. The division is between those who want to change the system to the Alternative Vote and... -
Lessons for Europe from the British referendum
Posted on 18/05/2011 | No CommentsThe dust is now settling after the referendum in the UK earlier this month on changing the electoral system. The result, on a 41 percent turnout, was 68 percent in favour of keeping the existing system, and only 32 percent in favour of change. This... -
Why was the electoral reform referendum lost?
Posted on 10/05/2011 | 1 CommentThe referendum on the introduction of the Alternative Vote (AV) on 5 May was lost by 68 per cent to 32 per cent. This is a crushing defeat. What went wrong for the Yes campaign? The explanation can be divided into three possible families of... -
A rotten way to fight a referendum
Posted on 15/04/2011 | 2 CommentsThere is something unsatisfying about the arguments deployed by the Yes side in the referendum campaign on electoral reform. They are right that the Alternative Vote is preferable to First Past The Post, but it is not vastly preferable and will not solve all the...
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