Re:A Scenario Where Brexit Does Not Actually Happen
by rayiner on Sunday June 26, 2016 @09:45AM
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Left sided traffic is the classic example of something that should be determined by bureaucrats. Whether to let French people vote on laws that directly bind British people is the perfect example of something that should not be determined by bureaucrats.
Re:A Scenario Where Brexit Does Not Actually Happen
by bjelkeman-again on Sunday June 26, 2016 @09:18AM
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Sweden also ignored a referendum and it's own decision to diamantle nuclear power. The government decided that all nuclear power would be dismantled after 2010. (Can be seen in the Swedish article). The majority of those plants are still in operation and can be replaced according to a new decision by a majority of the government. Probably sensible considering the changing understanding about carbon emissions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_power_refere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
Often decisions are better left to experts, something that representative democracy usually achieves. I also think that we should explain representative democracy as the population being able to hold the people in power accountable instead of the people deciding things. So democracy might even be a misnomer. This result is exactly what opponents of democracy meant when they identified it with tyranny of the masses.