At 09:05 24/06/2016 +0000, John Veit-Wilson wrote:
>If the referendum had been a vote about going out on strike in the public
>sector, the government insists on a minimum of 40 per cent of the eligible
>union membership electorate voting in favour, not just any majority. I
>haven t seen the precise referendum figures yet, but could someone please
>check them as soon as they are available and let us all know. A
>history-changing national vote does seem rather more important than a
>temporary strike.
>Whatever the many other political aspects of the numbers and breakdown of
>votes, if the leave vote was less than 40% of the electorate it would be
>worth drawing attention to the discrepancies in the application of Tory
>principles when the union issue comes up, as it probably will in the
>turmoils ahead.
The simple answer is 'No'. The 17,410,742 people who voted Leave
represented 37.4% of those 46,501,241 registered to vote (and, obviously,
an even lower percentage of those who _could_ have registered to vote).
However, a 40% (or whatever) rule would seemingly not be as clearly
applicable to the referendum as to a strike vote. As with the strike vote,
it would require that the default outcome (if Leave votes did not achieve
40%) would be to 'do nothing' - i.e. 'Remain' - and those favouring 'Leave'
might be very critical of that.
Kind Regards,
John
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