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jfman · 04-12-2018, 20:14

According to the ONS:

“There were 607,172 deaths registered in the UK in 2017, an increase of 1.7% from 597,206 in 2016 and the highest number registered annually since 2003.”

They can’t all have voted remain/abstained. The electorate in theory could be divergent by about 1.2 million deaths and a similar number of births in 1998-2000 joining the electorate. For a wafer thin referendum there has to come a point where it’s simply “out of date” as a measure of the will of the living people.

04-12-2018, 20:14	#4338
jfman Architect of Ideas Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 11,146	Re: Brexit According to the ONS: “There were 607,172 deaths registered in the UK in 2017, an increase of 1.7% from 597,206 in 2016 and the highest number registered annually since 2003.” They can’t all have voted remain/abstained. The electorate in theory could be divergent by about 1.2 million deaths and a similar number of births in 1998-2000 joining the electorate. For a wafer thin referendum there has to come a point where it’s simply “out of date” as a measure of the will of the living people.