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Correction: a minority of Britons believe powerful lies and vote accordingly. Out of 46.5m registered voters, 17.4m voted to leave the EU. That's 37% of voters

Correction: a minority of Britons believe powerful lies and vote accordingly. Out of 46.5m registered voters, 17.4m voted to leave the EU. That's 37% of voters, and about 26% of the population. Unfortunately, 13.3m people just didn't vote at all in the referendum. Theresa May got a hung parliament in her election (2017), and was propped up by the DUP. She won 42% of the vote, with about 13.6m votes cast - that's about 30% of eligible votes and 21% of the population. Johnson won 365 seats in the UK Parliament (a majority of 80 seats) in 2019 with only 43% of the vote - about 14m votes. Still not the majority of Britons. About 81,000 people voted for Liz Truss. It was only Conservative party members who were eligible to vote. No member of the public outside of the Tory party has ever voted for Sunak. He ran against Truss in the previous leadership election and got about 60,000 votes. He became PM when Truss resigned and he ran unopposed. Please explain how it is that Britons "keep voting against their own best interests", when the majority have actively resisted, abstained or not been able to participate in every vote from the Brexit referendum through to the appointment of the last four Prime Ministers. We need Parliamentary reform - an act like the Great Act of 1832, perhaps - and we need better politicians, but don't dare blame this on "Britons".

PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
> Out of 46.5m registered voters, 17.4m voted to leave the EU. That's 37% of voters, and about 26% of the population. Unfortunately, 13.3m people just didn't vote at all in the referendum. Cameron had promised to rescind the rule that prevented 15yr+ expats from voting on Brexit before the vote would be held. He never fulfilled that promise. How many of the 3M+ expats do you think might have voted against Brexit?
- PaulRobinson 3y ago
  Given most of them lived in the EU but outside of the UK, nearly all of them. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas. But then, maybe not. I remember the week after the vote reading a letter in one of the quality papers (I think The Times, quite likely), from a lady who had voted Leave and was shocked to discover that her plan to retire to the South of France was now going to be much harder to achieve. "I think we should have been told about these sorts of consequences", she complained. It really boggles the mind.
  - PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
    Yeah, I saw a documentary that included some English idiot living on the Costa del Sol (central Spanish Meditteranean coast) talking about how the UK had to "take back control". Asked if he planned to return to the UK, he pointed to the sun in the sky and said "No way mate, you can't take that back with you". Sigh.

PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago

> Out of 46.5m registered voters, 17.4m voted to leave the EU. That's 37% of voters, and about 26% of the population. Unfortunately, 13.3m people just didn't vote at all in the referendum. Cameron had promised to rescind the rule that prevented 15yr+ expats from voting on Brexit before the vote would be held. He never fulfilled that promise. How many of the 3M+ expats do you think might have voted against Brexit?

PaulRobinson 3y ago
Given most of them lived in the EU but outside of the UK, nearly all of them. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas. But then, maybe not. I remember the week after the vote reading a letter in one of the quality papers (I think The Times, quite likely), from a lady who had voted Leave and was shocked to discover that her plan to retire to the South of France was now going to be much harder to achieve. "I think we should have been told about these sorts of consequences", she complained. It really boggles the mind.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
  Yeah, I saw a documentary that included some English idiot living on the Costa del Sol (central Spanish Meditteranean coast) talking about how the UK had to "take back control". Asked if he planned to return to the UK, he pointed to the sun in the sky and said "No way mate, you can't take that back with you". Sigh.