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I'm playing best of 3. </joke> But.. 62.5% of British voters did not vote for leaving the EU. When it is such a massive thing and the vote is 52% vs 48% with

• alexbilbie 10y ago
  > But... 62.5% of British voters did not vote for leaving the EU. Um no...48% of voters did not vote for leaving the EU. People who were eligible to vote and didn't turn out are not voters.
  • Daviey 10y ago
    The Scottish Independence referendum of 1979, which produced similar results with 51.6% wanting out failed because a 40% of eligible voters had to support the proposal. As the turnout was only 64%, this means that only 32.9% voted to leave - shy of the required 40% required for it to be successful. Therefore, for that referendum - eligible voters that did not vote, still contributed to the vote by inaction, and weighted towards the remain camp. This is a much more reasonable way to hold a referendum of this sort, as the burden of change is weighted on those trying to break status quo. Wish we did something similar for this referendum.
• travisby 10y ago
  And 65.3% did not vote to stay in the EU. Your statistic is intentionally misleading.
• dingaling 10y ago
  > But.. 62.5% of British voters did not vote for leaving the EU. And 100% of British voters did not vote for joining the EU. Ideally the EU would require member states to hold a membership referendum every 15 or 20 years. That would be an honest and democratic way of self-checking the state of the union. As it is, many of the older former-EEC nations have never actually asked their populace whether they want to be in a political union.