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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Is it? The conservatives got 36% of the popular vote... meaning that 64% of voters didn't vote for the Tories last time, either, and of course, that 64% of the population is living under the rule of a government that it didn't vote for. Democracy in action is so awesome.
So... no it's not really how it works at all. I guess you could argue that more people didn't vote for Labour than didn't vote for the Conservatives, and that's "how it works", which is accurate. And ****ing depressing TBH. But again, that's democracy... arguably the least crappy political system we've come up with thus far.
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That's 64% of the people who bothered to vote... I'd guess that the number of non-voters who don't want the Tories in power is probably greater than the number of non-voters who do want them in power.