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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by warbucks on Thursday March 21, 2019 @07:43AM (#19451154)
Why such an important decision wasn't required to be 60/40 to pass completely baffles me. Almost as much as how the referendum is treated as some iron-clad decision while passing at 51/49.
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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by repolfx on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:04PM (#19454660)
Classic Remainer logic. If Leave had won 61/39 it'd have become "for such an important decision it should have been 75/25 to pass".

The reason decisions like elections use a simple majority is that otherwise it'd be a small minority of people oppressing the will of the majority, which is unstable, and otherwise known as dictatorship.

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