A very British Coup

[Same_as_before]

Advisory? Can you imagine the indignation if the Torys had ignored it.
Come on be real, we lost the election because people thought labour thought it was a good idea not to accept it.

I have said a million times, which way it went would not have changed my life , but I do and always will accept the will of the electorate.

Democracy it's a pain, but find me a better way.

 

[NYboro]

Democracy it's a pain, but find me a better way.

Shame it's not a real democracy.

 

[BlindBoyGrunt]

Advisory? Can you imagine the indignation if the Torys had ignored it.

Then knowing that, they should have made it a decisive referendum which would require a supermajority. To call it an advisory ref and then accept a slender majority was wrong.

Come on be real, we lost the election because people thought labour thought it was a good idea not to accept it.

I don't know what this bit means.

 

[Same_as_before]

On two different threads the righteous have argued;

A legitimate referendum should be ignored

A young girl should be brought back to a corrupt country to stand trial.

FFS I thought Boris was the problem

 

[1finny]

SAB - you get out of the wrong side of the bed today fella, you just seem to be spoiling for a fight.

 

[Same_as_before]

It's not the right we have to worry about

 

[BlindBoyGrunt]

On two different threads the righteous have argued;

A legitimate referendum should be ignored

A young girl should be brought back to a corrupt country to stand trial.

FFS I thought Boris was the problem

None of this is true.

 

[asredastheycome]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1284037023926493184

That's brilliant.

 

[Same_as_before]

BBB, I must have misunderstood your view of GB and the above decemination of the referendum result.

 

[Same_as_before]

Shame it's not a real democracy.

What is?

 

[Lefty]

Saying the referendum was legitimate is like claiming Fawlty Towers held a legitimate Gourmet Night.

'Everyone knew Duck Surprise meant Trifle'

 

[NYboro]

What is?

The UK's electoral system is far from democratic - 48% of the vote results in a massive majority.....

 

[Billy Horner]

The UK's electoral system is far from democratic - 48% of the vote results in a massive majority.....

43.6%, which actually makes your point even more pertinent.

 

[Same_as_before]

I thought the British people voted against PR, or was that advisory?

 

[bear66]

I thought the British people voted against PR, or was that advisory?

The British people have never had an opportunity to vote for PR.

 

[BoroFur]

The British people have never had an opportunity to vote for PR.

In fairness I think we did have a referendum Bear. It was one of Clegg's conditions of entering into a coalition with the Tories in 2010.

 

[bear66]

In fairness I think we did have a referendum Bear. It was one of Clegg's conditions of entering into a coalition with the Tories in 2010.

Not on PR. We had a vote on AV - a system that's in many ways worse than FPTP as it gets the MP least disliked by most people.

FPTP led to 70% of the people not getting the MP they voted for in 2005. That doesn't sound like democracy by any stretch of the imagination. At least the USA only had 52% of the people not getting the president they wanted.

 

[Cooper671]

It wasn’t PR Cameron knocked it back. Clegg caves in for Alternative Vote

 

[BoroFur]

It wasn’t PR Cameron knocked it back. Clegg caves in for Alternative Vote

Stand corrected

 

[Ziggy]

An encoded constitution
Two elected chambers
A bill of rights
The crown removed from the process
STV voting system
Decentralised powers.