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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
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
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No it doesn't. The prominence given to various policies in the manifesto, and the campaign effort made in the weeks prior to an election, tell you which policies are the priority for each party. The way the electorate votes tells you which of the main policy offerings they are attracted to.
Your arguments constantly try to turn electoral reality on its head. The EU has simply not been a high enough priority for voters for you to be able to read anything about it into the results of any past general election.