The UK economy has suffered tremendously from the decision to leave the EU, but it will all be fixed, if Nigel Farage gets another go at it, thinks 28 percent of Brits.
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@randahl
Nope.Just nope.
@taatm "The thing about populism is it is popular!"
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@randahl and 70% of the voters know Nigel Farage will never do anything for their country and do not give him their vote.
I am as shocked as you that 28% of the voters does not see through his madness, but we should not ignore the silent majority that does and wants to vote for real politicians.
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The UK economy has suffered tremendously from the decision to leave the EU, but it will all be fixed, if Nigel Farage gets another go at it, thinks 28 percent of Brits.
Madness!
@randahl that means 28% are at the USamerican cognitive level. Better than at Brexit voting times: 53% of the English and 52% of the UK ppl voted for Brexit.
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The UK economy has suffered tremendously from the decision to leave the EU, but it will all be fixed, if Nigel Farage gets another go at it, thinks 28 percent of Brits.
Madness!
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@randal_silversword @randahl agreed, but voting is! And instead of ignoring the 70% we should encourage them to speak up and make their presence louder in the public debate.
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The UK economy has suffered tremendously from the decision to leave the EU, but it will all be fixed, if Nigel Farage gets another go at it, thinks 28 percent of Brits.
Madness!
@randahl rest of the world REALLY needs preferential voting
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@randahl that means 28% are at the USamerican cognitive level. Better than at Brexit voting times: 53% of the English and 52% of the UK ppl voted for Brexit.
@Ilka4You you are right! We should remember that is in fact an improvement. But it is still a dangerously high support for madness though.
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@randahl rest of the world REALLY needs preferential voting
@bgrinter okay… please elaborate… ?
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@bgrinter okay… please elaborate… ?
@randahl I agree with @bgrinter ! Preferential voting is much better than first past the post (which they have in the UK). Randahl - here’s an explanation: https://www.aec.gov.au/learn/files/poster-counting-hor-pref-voting.pdf
However, it arguably only really works with the other part of Australia’s secret sauce: compulsory voting. That’s how you ensure 90%+ of the people vote.
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@randahl I agree with @bgrinter ! Preferential voting is much better than first past the post (which they have in the UK). Randahl - here’s an explanation: https://www.aec.gov.au/learn/files/poster-counting-hor-pref-voting.pdf
However, it arguably only really works with the other part of Australia’s secret sauce: compulsory voting. That’s how you ensure 90%+ of the people vote.
@james @bgrinter while I agree that FPP voting is bad for democracy, I do not think preferential voting is the only right solution.
For instance, Danish elections use socalled leveling seats to ensure proportionality. When we vote for our 179 members of Parliament, 40 seats are reserved for ensuring proportionality.
First the 139 normal seats are assigned, and then we assign the last 40 seats in such a way that we come as close as possible to correct proportional representation.
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