No - now you see you totally misunderstand democracy .....and your suppositions are entirely wrong
In Cornwall we had a working set of local council authorities - all looking after the area they controlled very admirably - admitted there were differences -for example we in this area had wheely bins - the next authority didn't ... hardly earth shattering ....
So - the ruling political party on Cornwall County Councils committees - the Lib Dems (toffs in training

) - decided they would like to have a unitary authority ...scrap all the local councils.... take out the word 'County' and just have one authority called 'Cornwall Council' - ruled from Truro.
Now - as the proletariat - we didn't like that idea ... so we kicked up a fuss .... the peasants are revolting and all that..... so.... the Lib Dems said .... we know .... we'll have a County wide referendum and all the land owners and toffs will side with us and we'll get our own way .......
WELL...... the referendum was duly held ........ One simple question on the ballot paper .....
'Should Cornwall have one unitary authority?' .... YES / NO
Referendum papers collected in - count held .... result was ......
88% - NO ......12% - YES ... huge turnout too.
A resounding victory for people power - local authorities to stay as they are .........
But wait a minute ........ oh bugger ........ they didn't like that result ...it wasn't what they were expecting .....
So they totally ignored us
and did it any way
Democracy in action

All animals are equal - but some animals are more equal than others
