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In its over a hundred fifty years of its life, it has rung the time of history! The hour of the imperial greatness, spanning more than half of the Earth's surface, as well as the hour of the long sunset of Great Britain's global power. The sad and scary hours of the threat of a military invasion which, since the destruction of the invincible Armada (1587) seemed just a ghost forever stuck in the fog of history. It rang the long awaited hour of Victory, at the end of the first and second world war. It gave the time of NATO as well as the return of the UK to the post-war game in Europe. It has accurately marked the beginning and ending hour of the cold war. It has said almost everything about the rule of a Queen who watches, coldly, equal to herself and not at all moved by the ebb and flow of time, over the land where her authority is still the cornerstone of the most resilient and complex institutions of Democracy. Just like the clock which has been named the Queen of Elizabeth has counted without fail, monotonously, the hours of the politician of the day, the ephemeris that succeed each other through the imposing building of the Parliament, on Thames' Western Bank, or at Downing Street 10 and 11, who are allowed, for one second to think that they are the ones setting the course of power.  Today the clock in Westminster will ring the Hour of Referendum! A truly exceptional procedure in the British decision making process. Thus, rarely used. It has been put to work in 1975, to seal the UK's participation in the institutional system of the European Communities ("the return is the case of the decisions concerning Scotland's separation in 1997 and 2014, just like local referendums have preceded and reinforced important decisions concerning the powers delegated to the authorities in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Looked upon favorably by the "modernists", the referendum is viewed by the "purists", as more of a weakness of representative democracy. A kind of parasite fungus that it is better to avoid, the more attractive it looks. The main argument: "The overall opinion" is rarely the same as an informed opinion. A recent study shows that the Brits are wrong about almost every important thing they are asked about in the polls! That fact isn't limited to that area! As for the politicians of the older generations, some have not been shy in saying about the referendum that "it is an instrument that is completely foreign to our traditions (British)...which was most often used by Nazism and Fascism." (Clement Attlee).