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Originally Posted by Carth
would it help matters if we said that those who didn't vote (but could do so) actually abstained?
Does this alter anything now we've given it a posh word?
Any vote has 3 possible answers yes - no - abstain
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No government since the 1930s has had over 50% of the vote, but they all claim a mandate.
Comparing the result to a race is a bad analogy. Whichever way the result is spun, the majority did not vote in a positive way for either leave or remain.
63% did not vote leave. 66% did not vote remain.
In other words a majority did not vote positively for either option. Nor was there any opportunity to vote for the deal May is trying to get.
And none of this now matters as we had a general election in which no party got a mandate for their particular version of Leave.