IT is worth recalling the 1998 referendum in Northern Ireland on the Belfast Agreement.
Voters were asked: "Do you support the agreement set out in Command Paper 3883"?
Transparent it was not, and yet nobody argued that the electorate was unable to express its views clearly, or failed to understand what it was being asked.Yesterday, the expert panel commissioned by pro-Union parties to examine the best phrasing for the question in Scotland's independence referendum delivered its verdict.
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