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Wow, next they're going to get rid of first past the post to introduce ranked voting. That would be absolutely incredible. But in a country that voted for Brexit, my hopes are low.
Brexit happened because the conservatives couldn't be arsed sorting out their own affairs so made it everyone else's problem.
We should not have a referendum on changing the election system. They should just change it, there's no reasonable person that would have a problem with it, but there's plenty of unreasonable people and uninformed people that would vote against their own interests if it was put to a referendum.
I think getting rid of the house of lords makes sense.
However let's not vote because no reasonable person would disagree with me is a completely shit argument.
Well there's a continuum isn't there between asking everyone about everything and asking nobody about anything. So where are we on that continuum, because if the government just hold referendums every time they change any policy then they may as well not exist, and we might as well just have direct democracy (Which never works).
So why should we hold a referendum for this, but not hold a referendum for example increasing the pay of railway workers?