Well I don't think there should have been a referendum. We elect governments in democracies to make our laws. If we don't like what they do, we kick them out. Tens of millions of UK voters are going to vote in two years' time in a crucial ballot on a complex issue that they have no hope of properly getting their heads around, all because Cameron had to try to wrong-foot UKIP in order to get himself elected. The alternative to referendums is not the "imposition" of laws. It is proper government that does not feel the need to make populist appeals to a politically-uneducated electorate. And "what's right" may well not be decided by a majority vote. When the UK parliament abolished the death penalty for murder, over eighty percent of the electorate were in favour of retaining it. So who was right?