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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

then its their responsibility to understand it surely?

That's a very easy answer but I'd suggest that it doesn't really matter whose responsibility it is, only that it is the case. People are lazy, mostly disinterested, not politically engaged and have the wrong idea about the system and it ends up acting as "natural propaganda". That is to say... Someone believes a majority means more than half of the country voted that way, we now have a majority Tory government, that person now believes that more than 50% of people voted Tory, and they then think "well they can't be that bad if more than half the country wants it".

The basics should be taught in schools from age 14 upwards. It seems fairly obvious that this basic understanding should be ensured. But the establishment actually benefits from ignorance, so they're happy to let it remain vague and convoluted.