Originally Posted by
SMT Member
The negotiations were very much in good faith as far as the EU goes, which is far more than can be said for the Cameron government who put EU membership to the vote. That was certainly not part of the negotiations and, right or wrong, seriously pissed off a lot of the EU.
If you are suggesting that the public shouldn't have had the opportunity to express a view over the result of Cameron's renegotiation, do you not think that would have made the EU even less popular in the UK than it already was?
At some point in any political process you have to try and take the majority with you.