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Originally Posted by jfman
In almost any other democracy, and certainly those multi-party systems, splitting the country “down the middle” and carrying 50% of the vote consistently after 13 years in Government that would reasonably be considered resounding success.
What Brown would have given for that in 2010. I’m sure Boris would settle for that in 2022/7.
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This argument belongs in the same family as those that advocate holding an indyref every five years. Constitutional matters can't be constantly up for the changing. That way lies instability. That's why countries with codified constitutions (like the USA) generally also have mechanisms designed to make changing them difficult, requiring a large degree of consensus, and therefore rare. Profoundly altering a constitution on a bare majority is ill advised. And no, before you mention it, our membership of the EU was not nearly on the same level.
