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On 12/17/2019 at 8:49 AM, grahamparker said:

I will just leave this here.

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How does the turnout compare? (Also, add votes for greens to the leave side) 

 

But yeah, I don't think there's been such a dramatic shift of opinion on Scottish Independence as the constituency results might imply. It just speaks to how backwards the whole electoral system is - in dire need of reform, but BoJo obviously won't change the system that handed him this big win. 

 

To parallel your point, notice that the pro-second EU referendum parties (Lab, Lib Dem, SNP, Green et al) won way more votes than the brexit parties (Con, Brexit party, UKIP). Something like 55/45 in favor of a confirmatory vote. 

If we abandoned the first past the post system, and if this was actually treated as a popular vote on a singular issue (as it really should have been) then we'd be having a different discussion. 

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17 hours ago, GLENGRAVING said:

 

If we abandoned the first past the post system, and if this was actually treated as a popular vote on a singular issue (as it really should have been) then we'd be having a different discussion. 

With such a large Conservative majority, it's a discussion that is just not going to happen. 

Every single voting system has flaws  but at least with this system you get a more definitive government, and not loads of shaky coalitions that most continental governments are made of.

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