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Referendums allow the direct involvement of citizens in decision making. This is necessary since our system of representative democracy (whereby representatives are elected by citizens to make decisions on their behalf) is flawed and inadequate:
■ the first-past-the-post electoral system does not allocate seats in the Commons proportionately
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