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Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code? by leereeves on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:36AM (#21789673)
> The 2019 election - just like the previous 3, subverted the popular vote by way of First Past the Post. Nationally, the pro-leave side only secured a minority of the vote.

Labour's official position is to negotiate a deal and then hold a final referendum. [1]

So there were three positions in the election (leave, remain, vote again) and leave won the largest share of the popular vote.

1:https://labour.org.uk/page/labour-brexit-plan/

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Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code? by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:42AM (#21789702)
But even so, the largest share were not the majority.

The majority of the country doesn’t want the Tories to negotiate the withdrawal. But that’s what is going to happen.

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Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code? by leereeves on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:57AM (#21789762)
I don't think proportional representation would fix that.

PR would probably lead to even more parties with each having fewer votes and none ever having a majority.

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Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code? by sokoloff on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:07AM (#21789812)
I think that would a feature at least as much as a bug. If the national government becomes focused on doing the most essential things and is forced to build broad-based, cross-party coalitions to accomplish that, it seems that causes the people to be better represented than if a majority party can cram through their point of view without worrying about trodding over those (temporarily) in the minority.
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