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Originally Posted by arista

But before the Election they
did not trust the UK Public
to vote.

To Sly

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.