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This seems to me to be fair.
Another point I would make: I happen to live in a constituency where Labour won nearly 80% of the vote in 2017.
The Labour MP is pro 2nd referendum, so the site recommended vote Labour: but it might fairly have said “it doesn’t really matter: the result is so certain and your vote is so irrelevant that you might as well back whoever you prefer generally”.
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An highly eccentric, indeed oxymoronic, view of democracy.
NB that we weren’t talking about government by opinion poll but a change in opinion manifesting itself through the classical means available in representative democracy: an election result or a lawfully established referendum.
But it’s this sort of desperate implausibility to which opponents of any possibility of voters rethinking the close 2016 result are reduced.
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@tfbrexit getting more and more unhinged. If remain parties won an election in 2019 on a promise to revoke, on what definition of democracy would revoking then be anti-democratic?
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