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 | | From: | BAC | | Subject: | Re: Hunting is banned! | | Date: | Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:55:34 -0000 |
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"Rooney" wrote in message
news:nkcaq0tlvekgp77qd71giudr0k5cdfb5ou@4ax.com...
> 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.
>
Most people learn from experience, that's true.
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