Shocking stuff, democracy
Maybe that is why so many 'liberals' in other European countries are pretending to be shocked by the result.
What really shocks such 'liberals' is that the people of Switzerland intend to decide for themselves how their homeland will deal with the effects of Muslim immigration. Shocking stuff, the power of a referendum.
Which is why I found one voice so particularly reasonable in all this. A woman called Elisabeth Salina Amorini, with an address in Crans-Montana, Switzerland has a letter in the Financial Times today.
In it she writes: 'Before denouncing the Swiss people as a whole, maybe European governments should ask themselves what would have been the result of a similar vote in their own country if their citizens were able to express themselves in this way.'
Okay, David Cameron: I dare you.