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Keep the pressure on and maybe we can get this to a second vote before it;s quietly shelved this time!
"symbolic" being the key word.
This won't lead to anything.
I wish Brexit was a symbolic vote.
It was...
Then it wasn't.
But what would be the point of having a referendum, getting the results and then just saying "oh right, that's interesting" and doing nothing?
What would be the point of having a referendum and deciding that 51% was enough to burn it all without a plan?
The stupidity of politicians is not a reason to ignore what people vote for.
I didn't say ignore the vote. Your reading comprehension is atrocious.
Let me think... Possibly because it was based on lies, manipulation and the significant part of the UK residents were disenfranchised?
Who was disenfranchised? It was the biggest democratic vote in the UK's history, if I recall correctly.
Just three million of EU citizens in the UK and hundreds of thousands of UK citizens in the EU.
They can't vote in general elections either.
Your point is? They live in the UK, pay taxes here - and by the way, they were able to vote in Scottish Independence referendum.
I would like to see Tories if SNP were to exclude English voters from the independence vote.
I would like to see Tories if SNP were to exclude English voters from the independence vote.
That would be denying UK citizens a right to vote in a UK referendum, so that's not even close to the same thing.
That you?
Yes. And a constitution, with proper separation of powers.
All of the Conservatives who voted, 78 of them, opposed the idea
I'm mildly surprised by that, since FPTP actively hurt them at the last election.
It might have lost the party the election
But the rich party donors don't actually mind their party losing as long as they also control the second party well enough to avoid regulations, taxes, or any modicum of responsibility towards society.
FPTP isn't about which party wins, it's about reducing the power of the electorate far enough that change only happens with the content of the rich.
It's only temporary. Once they've bribed farage sufficiently he'll disband the reform party and the tories will return to dominating elections through the corruption of FPTP. The absurd thing is Labour refuse to accept this and will blunder on refusing to accept we need a proportional electoral system
Labour have just won a 174 seat majority on 34% of the vote with FPTP.
There would be no benefit to them in changing the system.
In my opinion labour's victory was due to the utter incompetence of the conservatives and unexpected success of the reform party. I don't believe these circumstances will be repeated so labour will get demolished as usual in the next election. The same applies to the lib dems getting 70 seats under FPTP. It won't be repeated so they must work together to repair the damn system
Oh, there is. There is no guarantee this will be repeated.
Yeah but they'd get fucked with PR.
Labour less so but they would still prefer FPTP over PR for party reasons. And without one or both of these large groups nothing will change. 😞