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The article doesn't use the word "majority". In fact the title is: "Boris Johnson should resign as PM, 43% of people tell survey" Plurality is different than m

• jfengel 6y ago
  Especially since it's a bare plurality: 40% think he shouldn't. And 87% of his party. Those are the kinds of numbers you get even without a combination economic disaster and pandemic. Your opponents hate you and your partisans like you. Maybe his opponents are a little more insistent since he's presiding over a crisis that other countries are handling a bit better. And it's probably made worse by the off-kilter FPTP thing they've got going on, where his party got a majority in the legislature with only 43% of the vote. But the headline here is very wrong. It's definitely not a majority. And while it's probably worse than usual, it's nowhere near the kinds of numbers that actually make somebody take this seriously.