But there is a big difference between voting for a government that can be ousted after four or five years and voting for what is in effect, in your or my lifetime anyway, an irrevocable decision to leave the EU, with all the complex implications that go with it. Parenthetically, note that a decision to remain would NOT have been irrevocable - we just have another vote, innit, an internal UK matter. In fact, that's what we've done - it's just that the next vote was 41 years after the last one, that's all. What I'd do about it is keep the current electoral system in place (tweaked? Discuss...) but NEVER have referendums. I thought remain was a shoo-in but I still vehemently argued against having the referendum, using the same argument as here. I'm sure my posts in that regard are checkable, though I'm not bothering.