I wish to deal with the view that having a second referendum is somehow undemocratic. The leader of the No to Nice campaign came to prominence as a campaigner on the issue of abortion and spent most of the past 15 years, from the time he reached adulthood, continually demanding new referenda on issues which had been resolved. He was perfectly entitled to do so. I know many people on the liberal left who disagree with me on the Nice treaty who, on the day the first divorce referendum was rejected, started planning for the next one. They were perfectly entitled to do so because that is a reasonable course of action.