No. The idea of a referendum is to seek a mandate for a controversial new course of action for which you have no pre-existing mandate from the electorate. I'm all for them, even though it wasn't very bright to propose it this time.
I also object to the idea of our political leaders "governing" us. We govern them through the ballot box, or at least that's how it's supposed to work, although Laour these days seem to have forgotten that both locally and nationally and have been subsumed by long term power's tendency to corrupt.
