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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Democracy in action isn't very democratic.

In 2015 David Cameron and the Conservative party were elected with just 36% of the vote.

Almost two thirds, 64% of the people who voted, did not vote for the Tories.

Democratic, or not democratic?

Dictionary definition of democracy: A system of government by the whole population or all the eligiblemembers of a state, typically through elected representatives

So yes, democratic. Your objection is to our first past the post system of electing a government, which usually leads to the statistics you state. But all of the other systems, like proportional representation or eliminating the weaker candidates through further ballots, do the same thing and often lead to impermanent coalitions which are even less satisfactory.

True.

It seems 'we the people' have democratically elected a government that two out of three of us didn't vote for.

According to Churchill, democracy is the worst possible form of government, apart from all the others.
Our system is a long way from perfect, but the bottom line is that we can actually vote them out. We cant vote out, those who rule us from Brussels. 

[05omegav6]

He also said, " The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."... although probably not in the same interview

A possible headline for June 22nd... "We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice."

[Sir Tigger KC]

Democracy in action isn't very democratic.

In 2015 David Cameron and the Conservative party were elected with just 36% of the vote.

Almost two thirds, 64% of the people who voted, did not vote for the Tories.

Democratic, or not democratic?

Ah yes, had there been a Lab/Lib/SNP/UKIP/Green/BNP/Plaid Cymru/Sinn Fein/SDLP/UUP/APNI  coalition before the election, things could have been so different!   

[2boxerdogs]

Sir Winston Churchill was a wise man, he once said "We have our own dream & our own task .We are with Europe but not combined.We are interested but not absorbed, if Britain must choose between Europe & the open sea she must always choose the open sea."

[Rods2]

Sir Winston Churchill was a wise man, he once said "We have our own dream & our own task .We are with Europe but not combined.We are interested but not absorbed, if Britain must choose between Europe & the open sea she must always choose the open sea."

I'm pro-European and I'm pro-trading with European and the rest of the world, but I'm against being ruled from Brussels by an appointed dictatorship. The 23th June is about being a self governing democracy who we vote in and out or being a province of the EU ruled by a remote unelected omission, who are appointed and we can't vote out.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Exactly. All the other bullshit about economic matters etc.  is just muddying the water, to distract from those all important principles.