"Majority" = 38%. My 'O' Level grade 3 maths wasn't much use then.

I suppose insecurity and some kind of mental condition can cause people to become gratuitously abusive towards someone making a perfectly civil post. Make an appointment with someone, Iains. You are unwell.

As has been tediously pointed out here many times, we elect MPs to make difficult and complex decisions, paying them to do their homework and attend to armies of researchers. It doesn't matter that the electorate don't always agree. The electorate may well not be qualified to decide. If you let the electorate decide we would certainly still be hanging and quite likely flogging people, or putting them in the stocks, and forcing young men to do national service "because it wasn't like this in my day" and sending black people and Pakistanis "back to where they came from." Let's have referendums on everything! Jesus or Barabbas!