In reply to Cú Chullain:
On the one hand this is anti-democratic. If you are going to invite "the people" to engage in a process then honouring their choice would appear to be the right thing to do.
On the other hand, the mass, social-media and sniggering/laddish depths that such public votes often sink into, utterly devalues the process in the first place. Boaty McBoatface may be popular but it is immature, unoriginal and lacking in any kind of imagination. Come on, "we" as a people can do better than that, surely!
Still, I understand Boaty will live on in one way