The 87% referendum result voted on a mischaracterized question.

Evidence

But the referendum question was the “smacking ban” framing, not the legal framing. It was not asking “Should parents have a legal defence of reasonable force for corporal punishment?” — which was the actual legal question. It was asking whether a parental smack should be criminal, which it would not have been under the Bradford bill (as the government repeatedly stated). The referendum established that 87% of voters rejected a question whose premise mischaracterized the legislation they were voting on. — , The Rod and the Child, 10070

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Framing a repeal referendum mischaracterized the law’s actual effect — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 11394

Related

• Framing a repeal referendum mischaracterized the law’s actual effect (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Framing a repeal referendum mischaracterized the law’s actual effect #corroborates (0.90) — , The Rod and the Child, 11394