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Originally Posted by Chris
The problem with your argument is that you effectively make every general election into a referendum on a single issue (EU membership). If the EU is sufficiently low in people's priorities, e.g. they may not like it, but are prepared to tolerate it for the time being, then it is quite possible for them to vote for a manifesto whose position on the EU is the exact opposite of their own, simply because everything else that manifesto says is more attractive to them.
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Or looking at it the other way - the majority of people are happy with the major parties being pro-european (major referring to the number of returned candidates not votes cast). So when the choice on membership is offered every few years the electorate is happy with their European lot. Your argument could easily be applied to any policy in the governing parties manifesto, which kind of negates it as serious.
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Grim