Thread: Discharge Without Conviction

Originally Posted by Tommy

Like we voted for 99 MPs and the anti-smacking law? And got ignored.

BTW, in 1999 we voted on:

""Should there be a reform of our Justice system placing greater emphasis on the needs of victims, providing restitution and compensation for them and imposing minimum sentences and hard labour for all serious violent offences?". This measure passed by 91.78%, still got ignored.

Citizen Initiated Referenda are not binding. For good reason. Imagine for a minute what the likely result of a "should MSSA's be banned ?" CIR would be, given that legal firearm license holders make up less than 5% of the voting population...

If you look at the results of Government Referenda, I suspect you'd be hard pressed to find examples that were not implemented.