With a growing list of problems and a diminishing list of ideas, the Tories are resorting to extremes

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Every lazy populist now thinks referendums are the route to their nirvana (PA Wire)

Ah yes, the thought of a referendum on climate change warms the cockles of your heart, doesn’t it?

In all honesty, I’ve seen copious calls for this insanity way before yesterday’s editorial. We can thank David Cameron for empowering every lazy populist who now thinks referendums are the route to their nirvana. Another example of the law of unintended consequences.

Fast on their heels are calls for referendums on (in no particular order) abortion rights, gun ownership deregulation, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, and last, but not least, leaving the World Health Organisation – anti-vaxxers’ latest hobby-horse.