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Originally Posted by techguyone
Thing is, that's how voting works, for anything not just referenda, it's who turns up on the day that counts, anything else is just meaningless nonsense that just smacks of sour grapes, else we could go through every GE result in history and say 'oh it was only 10% of the electorate' or whatever.
If you don't show - you don't get a say - simple.
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Nobody is disputing that part.
However, the word electorate has a clear definition, like population. To use either of those words misrepresents what actually happened and at face value overstates the vote.
The most accurate statement that can be made is that the majority of voters selected the option to leave. Voters being the subset of the electorate who actually turned up.
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Originally Posted by jonbxx
The Conservative party being elected in the 2017 General Election with a mandate to leave the European Union which we are doing. However, not many people seem to accept the approach being taken.
Surely once you have a vote, in this case to put the Conservative Party in to power, should we be sticking by the outcome of the vote and supporting the Government? Anything else would be against the will of the people...
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If you are relying on that election result as a mandate for the Conservatives to do anything then you are skating on very thin ice. A minority of voters and a minority Government.