EU referendum - Deferring vote would be sensible
That definition recognises the appropriateness of flexibility and points to the great stupidity of intransigence and how stasis handcuffs the pragmatism that can improve people’s lives.
Though our Government has set a date — May 31 — for a referendum on the EU fiscal compact, events are conspiring, as Harold Macmillan once warned they do, to suggest that there are strong arguments to defer that inevitable day of reckoning.