Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
Why would they bother though?? sure it's only fixing the length of a Parliment, the government can still decide to go to the people sooner if they so wish.
Not without either repealing said law or getting a 2/3 majority in the Commons - which is different to Tony waking up one morning and thinking the poll numbers look good.

We have the same and we wrote it ourselves that's why we had to have a referendum for the ESM treaty.
The difference being, of course, that because we have no fixed Constitution there is nothing to alter in the face of the EU, which allows the government of the day to avoid referenda.