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It is good how everyone can call the same number in different ways, I would call the hypothetical 60% votes for re-join as a "slight majority", the FT calls it
by jaclaz 4y ago
It is good how everyone can call the same number in different ways, I would call the hypothetical 60% votes for re-join as a "slight majority", the FT calls it a "strong approval".
- YourDadVPN 4y agoLeave won with about 52% of the vote, that's what I'd call a slight majority.
- jaclaz 4y agoYep, that is exactly the good thing, anyone can use his/her own metrics, though technically 50% + 1 vote is the majority, and democracy works that way, 52% is virtually indistinguishable from 48% as I see it.
- benj111 4y agoThe biggest issue for me has always been the demographics. Older people voted for Brexit, old people tend to die more than you people. I did a back of a fag packet calculation when this was voted for and noted then that the majority would have died by the time Brexit actually got implemented. So to get to the point, has anyone changed their mind, or is this just brexiteers dying?
- jaclaz 4y agoInteresting possibility, to this you add that (likely) young people that became eligible for voting tend to be more pro-EU and anyway go against the status quo, and the 10 years after vote could be easily reversed. But for getting 60% or more there is anyway the need of lots of people changing their mind. I still believe (maybe wrongly) that part of the reasons why Brexit succeeded was because the voters were not properly told what the advantages and disadvantages could have been, so a certain number of people voted for Brexit without really-really being convinced.
- benj111 4y agoVoter's were never even told what Brexit we were going to have, let alone being educated on the pros and cons. The debate was over a hard or soft Brexit. Even the hard brexit was softer than what we got.