Sir, – Surely the essential point about the recent referendum results is that the essential and non-controversial amendment to establish a court of appeal attracted a No vote of a third.
Evidently, there is a substantial minority of citizens who perceives a referendum as a capital opportunity to give the Government a bloody nose, without having to find an alternative politician to support. Surely any future government will draw the conclusion that, absent referendums forced on them by external forces like the EU, constitutional reforms offer a hiding to nothing. – Yours, etc,
(Prof) DAVID GWYNN
MORGAN,
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Law Department,
University College, Cork.