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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

lets face it if the countries won't hold a referendum, its because they think the result will go against them. The far right mumblings across europe just mirror UKIP here. When people become unhappy enough, they will support those extreme voices to force the government of the day to listen to them.

This is a europe wide issue, and it won't go away by them sticking their fingers in their ears and pretending its not happening.

Maybe so but the fact remains that we only had our referendum because a Prime Minister in favour of EU membership granted it to us. The other countries won't make the same mistake. Ukip did not and never would have had the power to call a referendum themselves and the same is true of the AfD. They say they'll hold the referendum 'if they clutch power in country's general election' but they're never going to do that so its a moot point.