Quote Originally Posted by poop
Remain parties won 52% of popular vote, Leave won 48%.
I mean, I appreciate you're responding to my claim that Labour suffered because of their Brexit policy, but this wasn't a Brexit vote. Brexit was simply the dominant issue. Not everyone who voted Leave voted for a pro-Leave party, and not everyone who voted Remain voted for a pro-Remian party. But that doesn't change the fact that Labour's Brexit policy has cost them dearly. And the Libs.

SNP got 45% of the populae vote in Scotland. 62% voted to Remain.

I do agree that the result does not give Boris the mandate he thinks it does, but that's ok because the referendum we had years ago does give him that mandate.

The reason Labour didn't win is because people are too dumb to vote strategically and the Remain vote got split between Labour and Lib Dems.
I like the way the Tories won because "people are dumb", rather than because "Labour is unelectable". This is the problem with libs. Blame the masses, rather than the incompetence of people whose actual job it is to do politics and economics.

Farage did what he had to do. He stood aside and allowed the Tories to walk it. If only Swinson had done the same, huh?

First, lol at people who spoil their ballot. "I want to make a statement with my vote, and that statement is I dislike every party so much I'll take the time to go and spoil a ballot." What is the point? Just stay home.
I disagree, and you're in the minority here. The vast majority of people would say the opposite... better to spoil your ballot than to stay at home. Spoiled ballots get counted, and if there's a lot of them, that in itself is a statement. More so than low turnout. I mean, you're entitled to your opinion here, there's not much between the two, but I chose to be actively apathetic, rather than lazy.

Second, legally you'll get another chance to spoil a ballot in five years or less. By then your benefits will probably be too little to get you to the polling station, but at least you will still be eating British fish.
Fun fact - I've been in receipt of benefits for the vast majority of ten years of Tory rule. Not once has my income been reduced during this time. Did you read that on the side of a bus or something?