A lot of people country wide don't seem to like democracy in action as happening now
You think it was democracy?
Personally I think it made a mockery of our whole parliamentary system.
We elect a government -
that's democracy. The government then has a duty to do what it believes is best for the country as a whole. They have civil servants and secretaries and whatnot running about for them to gather all the information required to make a reasonable judgement. The average voter in the street doesn't have ready access to this data, nor the time or inclination to seek it out, nor the expertise to analyse it. This is why so many people based their votes on emotional claptrap, rather than on the socio-economic consequences of the possible outcome.
But hey! Maybe this is the new way of doing things? More power to the people.... We could have a free vote on all sorts of things! How about firearms ownership, for a start? Should UK citizens be allowed to own firearms, yes or no? I'm sure it would be easy enough to arrange - just wait until after the next terrorist outrage, or the next gun-related violent crime, when the public are all up in arms about it (if you'll pardon the pun). Some up-and-coming young politician could be persuaded to raise the issue, the media would get behind it and the people would love it. In a very short while they'd be
demanding a vote on it, and then hey presto! That would probably be the end of sporting shooting in the UK.
Of course, most members of this forum would be quite happy with the result, because it would be democracy in action. However, I prefer the system whereby our democratically elected government weighs up the evidence and then decides that we should be able to continue to own firearms for sporting purposes, subject to certain rules.
