Surely you remember the £7bn cost of two aircraft carriers (it has gone up by £2bn in the last year) that will not have any aircraft, and a cancellation fee of £5bn if we only wanted to build one?
It puts the £80m cost of democracy in context.

Although the 'no' vote won with a substantial majority nationally, in Lewisham the results were very close (still a majority to 'no').
http://ukreferendumresults.aboutmyvote.c...?id=LEWISH
'No' won with 50.65% against 49.35% to 'yes' in Lewisham. Thankfully this result was not the national picture, as such a close result would have been a nightmare.