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    'Parliament makes decisions, not the people' - anger as Peers say public cannot be trusted on EU vote

    ``They do have a point.The public are being bombarded with populist,provocative sound bites by `protest ` parties and tabloid

    press that they can use and repeat easily without deeper thought and eventually believe to be true,thereby making

    a Referendum a dangerous tool.It would only produce an ill-conceived judgement.``

    A referendum on Europe would be a "lottery",

    Peers have been accused of showing "contempt" for British voters over the proposed EU referendum, saying the public cannot be trusted to make the right decision.

    Dozens of members of the House of Lords today attacked Conservative plans to set in law an in/out vote on Britain's membership of the European Union by 2017.

    There are growing fears the bill will be killed at committee stage by Labour and Liberal Democrat peers, despite it sailing through the Commons and receiving an unopposed second reading in the Lords.

    Lord Mandelson, the former EU Commissioner, said any vote would be a "lottery" in which the electorate would be swayed by irrelevant issues.
    He told peers David Cameron had been "taken hostage by the militant tendency" in the Tory Party and was "grandstanding to the Ukip gallery."

    Full story The Telegraph...precis rvh

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