Comment by phatfish
1 day ago
Someone doesn't know the difference between a simple majority referendum and a parliamentary election result.
1 day ago
Someone doesn't know the difference between a simple majority referendum and a parliamentary election result.
>elections don't change anything no matter who wins [not you, but who I was responding to]
The Brexit referendum was in the 2015 Conservative party manifesto [1]. If Labour had won the 2015 election then there would have been no referendum and the UK would still be in the EU. Or if people had voted differently in the referendum, the UK would still be in the EU.
The person I was responding to suggests that elections have never changed anything in the UK within their lifetime. Unless they are less than 10 years old, this is clearly false.
[1] https://www.theresavilliers.co.uk/files/conservativemanifest... (p. 30)