If you are saying 'vote share' is the 'will of the people' - 60% of those that voted, the majority voted against the Tories, therefore the 'will of the people'. Isn't the anti Tory vote the 'will of the people' then?
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If you are saying 'vote share' is the 'will of the people' - 60% of those that voted, the majority voted against the Tories, therefore the 'will of the people'. Isn't the anti Tory vote the 'will of the people' then?
Yes, but they got the single most votes of any party - nearly a million more than their nearest rival.
As for the others, you can't say they voted against the Tories (although I certainly voted against Labour, so a bit hypocritical here), because they voted for a political party. You can add up each of the left of centre parties if you want, but when you have the likes of the Lib Dems actually ruling out any dealings with Labour and the SNP wanting to gain something from doing so (independence), then it's a pointless exercise.
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I heard he has alopecia and his beard is a listening device built by Mi5...
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Christ.
Since the war not one party has secured 50% or more of the vote. By your insane logic, we've never had a "will of the people" government. That's not how our democracy works and it's the envy of the world.
Many people didn't vote for their party just because it was "anti-Tory". They voted for their MPs impact on their local area, or their views on the environment, or gay rights etc.
You've got to stop seeing the mad conspiracy in everything.
Well done. It wasn't hard to understand, even for you.
As far as UK democracy goes - in this instance voting for MPs - being the 'envy of the world'. I would love to see the data for this. More of a huch I would suggest.
Many people did vote for their party because it was anti Tory. You mean you have you never heard, the many say 'I've voted for ... to get the Tories out, or to stop them getting in'. I am sure people vote for an MP based on what you said.
Voters vote for people and increase their majority. For instance,
"Diane Abbott has been re-elected as the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, with 42,265 votes – 75 per cent of the vote.
This is an increase of 10,908 votes since she was re-elected in the General Election of 7 May 2015 with 31,357 votes". Now that is the will of the people.
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Sigh.
Really not complicated mate. But go ahead making it all up again.
As I've said mate, you're making up your own stuff and that's fine.
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so...when the maybot goes (more likely run over by a tractor in a wheat field) which "strong and stable" tory is going to replace her?
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Oh dear. You don't take it too kindly when you say something and someone says something different. You need to accept that people have different views to you.
They haven't got anyone as they are all a bunch of dunderheads who only get away with things because of a timid media. The main culprit because the state controlled BBC who have bent over backwards this election to keep Corbyn out.
How many governments in the last few hundred years have actually secured a majority of the population voting for them?
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Now there's a man who understands the will of the people, by telling them what it is.
None that I am aware of in the UK. That is why no politician or party could say they are doing things with the 'will of the people'.
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