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Originally Posted by joeysteele

To be fair, a lot of Labour MPs said publicly they thought there should be a referendum,(just as there are Conservative MPs,who even still don't want one), also a great many Labour party members and workers like myself,despite being pro EU did also say, it would have helped a great deal.

However, the leader,as in any party, rubber stamps the policies and that is what has to be gone with at the time.
Ed Miliband refused totally to even look at the referendum issue again, he had a fair policy as to one and the circumstances as to same,that was not however what the voters wanted.

It wasn't about not trusting the public, more than about not trusting the media to report fairly and in a balanced way the good and bad as to the EU.
That is still my fear, that the media will hijack this and present their own bias rather than the 'honest' facts the voters need to make a much better informed decision.

With regard to the EU in/out ref, its never going to be an equal campaign or argument, and there are good reasons for that in itself. The status quo is that we are in, the onus should be on the out campaign to put enough doubt in peoples minds for them to think again. But rightly, because it is the status quo, it will have more voice and money behind it. UKIP's argument, that it should be an equally funded campaign is a joke, because it is putting a barrier in there that is just not possible. Meaning, unless the UK vote NO, they will always cry foul play.