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 | | From: | Derek Moody | | Subject: | Re: Hunting is banned! | | Date: | Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:13:57 +0000 |
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 | On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:30:29 +0000, Phil Kyle
wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:18:48 +0000, Rooney wrote:
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>>On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:40:11 +0000 (GMT), John Cartmell
>> wrote:
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>>>In article <41a52244$0$43606$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
>>> Old Codger wrote:
>>>> Rooney wrote:
>>>> > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:09:15 +0000, Oz
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Rooney writes
>>>> >>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:25:08 +0000, Oz
>>>> >>> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>> One function of a working democracy is to allow freedom for
>>>> >>>> minorities within it, where what they do does not affect others.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> That's nothing to do with the definition of democracy. It's just
>>>> >>> majority rule - no more, no less.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I didn't say definition, I said 'one function of a working'.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > The function of a working democracy is to enact majority rule - no
>>>> > more, no less.
>>>
>>>> So we haven't got a working democracy. Young Tone did not get a majority
>>>> vote, just a majority of the parliamentary seats.
>>>
>>>I think you're (deliberately?) misunderstanding the meaning of 'majority
>>>vote'. The last time the majority vote didn't produce the next government
>>>was in 1951.
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>>I think Old Codger means that there was no referendum. That's by the
>>by. There was an enormous majority in the commons - and that's the
>>system we've got. Some people are happy enough to praise our system
>>until they get a result they don't like.
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>Our system is a load of cock!
And bull!
Cheerio,
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