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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by _Codemonkeyism on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:23AM (#19450631)
Yes I agree, if you don't vote (having voted in every election the last 30y and would never not vote) you're ok with the result and can't complain, but from a Remainer standpoint the framing would be "50M didn't vote for Brexit" - then I'd think their arguing would be easier.

Having watched many Commons discussions, it basically always ends with "but the 17M".

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by ben_w on Thursday March 21, 2019 @07:06AM (#19450916)
The trouble with your first point is that UK democracy feels like this:

* Vote winner — your fault, don’t get to complain

* Vote loser/2nd party — you lost, suck it up, don’t get to complain

* Vote 3rd party/spoiled ballot — you wasted your vote, don’t get to complain

* Didn’t vote — you must be OK with any outcome, don’t get to complain

* Found new party — how interesting, let’s invite you on TV even if you got 249 votes total (Lord Buckethead), but anyone who voted for you still threw away their vote

* Left country — who cares, certainly not the council who is supposed to send you a postal vote (happened to a friend of mine in the EU referendum, would’ve voted remain)

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by pjc50 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @07:24AM (#19451023)
Yes. In many ways Brexit is one of those "cascade failures" we read about on COMP.RISKS; democracy has been malfunctioning for a long time, every effort to fix it has been blocked, and now we have the consequences.
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