(June 24, 2016 at 10:47 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(June 24, 2016 at 9:05 pm)Tiberius Wrote: It wasn't even half the country. It was half of the 72% who turned out to vote.
I have a suspicion that if the turnout was 100% the result would have been a win for remain.
People that don't vote don't give a damn about the results and they don't matter.
Besides, unless the rules state otherwise the side that gets 50% + 1 is the winner. So if the pool of available voters is 50 million and only 50 bother to vote the side that gets 26 or more is the winner.
The weather was particularly poor across the UK, meaning a lot of people couldn't get out to vote. There are many reasons why people do not, or cannot vote.
