Did anyone else find the notion of SF and SWP "protecting" our corporate tax regime amusing?
At the end of the day I didnt bother to vote
I've badly phrased my postOn the other points you have made... Huh? Firstly I saw no information from either campaign but certainly not from the yes telling people to spoil votes if they were unsure, can you please provide some reference material to back up your contention?
On the second point, why in heaven's name would the YES campaign tell anyone to vote NO. LOGICALLY what would happen if someone indicated they were unsure is they would ask why and try to explain away their fears. What sort of person would tell you to vote NO when they want to you vote YES?
What ever your reasons this is unforgiveable -
Would you like to give up democracy altogether because of some poor campaigning for this referendum?
I've badly phrased my post
I believe that many people voted 'No', because they were unsure. A better option might have been to spoil their vote. If the 'Yes' campaign highlighted this (inform unsure people to spoil rather than vote 'no'), then the 'No' vote might be less. In other words, the 'No' camp got the 'Noes' and 'unsures'.
With regards to explaining away fears, how many weeks do we have? The change to the constitution was gobbledegook in my eyes.
What happens next? We move on and we get the Europe WE want, not one dreamed up by a bunch of unelected eurocrats in Brussels.
Would you like to give up democracy altogether because of some poor campaigning for this referendum?
What happens next? We move on and we get the Europe WE want, not one dreamed up by a bunch of unelected eurocrats in Brussels.
Or rather one carefully teased out and painfully negotiated between 27 sovereign states with a wide-range of vested interests?What happens next? We move on and we get the Europe WE want, not one dreamed up by a bunch of unelected eurocrats in Brussels.
I wasnt given a third option to mark my abstention or a ' dont know' down on the ballot paper ?
I see Mickey Martin is now trying to hang on a lack of information..wonder is he trying to hang Referendum Commission?
Ah that makes much more sense. Yes I'd agree, the logical thing for the disaffected (particularly these) or the unsure if they aren't willing to vote yes would be to register a Dustin the Turkey vote and spoil their ballot rather than just plumping for no out of fear rather than conviction.
Oddly most people's fears weren't centred around the changes to the constitution per se, their fears were those whipped up by the no campaign relating to taxation, militarism, privatisation, etc.