After reading it, Drum demurs:

I don't have a huge dog in this fight, but I will say this: David Cameron's pledge to offer "California-style referendums on any local issue if residents can win the support of 5% of the population" is the most willfully wrongheaded idea I've heard in a long time. I mean, have you checked out the Golden State lately, David? "California-style referendums" have not exactly done California any favors.

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