Referendum is basically giving the people the opportunity to give their vote on what they think is the right choice. It shows the power of democracy and sharing the power with the citizens. The word referendum has the word “refer” and it explains that it is referring on something. In this essay the writer will give advantages, disadvantages, and examples of referendum. And show how referendum can help to get over an issue, with basically giving the people the power to give a solution to the issue. The writer will also show differences of referendum in other countries and give the opinion whether referendums should be used for “questions of national importance”.
There aren’t as many of advantages, but here are some of the main advantages …show more content…
The referendum question was “Should Scotland be an independent country?”. Almost 85% of the population voted and the result was 44.7% (Yes) and 55.3% (No). And it was the highest turn out record for an election in the United Kingdom. The Scottish independence referendum was passed by the parliament in 2013. Afterwards it was agreed by the United Kingdom governments. And only over the age of 16 could vote and that was around 4.3 million of voters. (Parliament, 2013) One of the disadvantages of the Scottish referendum is if Scotland gets independence, they don’t what their currency is going to be. Scottish politicians have the idea of keeping the pound as a currency once they gain independence, but politicians from London do not believe in the idea and they think it’s going to cause economic turmoil. And according to Reginald Dale said, “The Scots seems to have no plan ‘b’”, he is basically saying that Scotland would not know what they’re going to do if plan A failed.
Another disadvantage is that businesses are going the leave the country, because once Scotland gets independence there will be up and downs in the economy since it’s going to have to grow its own economy, and once the economy stabilize business may come back to the
There aren’t as many of advantages, but here are some of the main advantages …show more content…
The referendum question was “Should Scotland be an independent country?”. Almost 85% of the population voted and the result was 44.7% (Yes) and 55.3% (No). And it was the highest turn out record for an election in the United Kingdom. The Scottish independence referendum was passed by the parliament in 2013. Afterwards it was agreed by the United Kingdom governments. And only over the age of 16 could vote and that was around 4.3 million of voters. (Parliament, 2013) One of the disadvantages of the Scottish referendum is if Scotland gets independence, they don’t what their currency is going to be. Scottish politicians have the idea of keeping the pound as a currency once they gain independence, but politicians from London do not believe in the idea and they think it’s going to cause economic turmoil. And according to Reginald Dale said, “The Scots seems to have no plan ‘b’”, he is basically saying that Scotland would not know what they’re going to do if plan A failed.
Another disadvantage is that businesses are going the leave the country, because once Scotland gets independence there will be up and downs in the economy since it’s going to have to grow its own economy, and once the economy stabilize business may come back to the