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Originally Posted by jambutty
I wonder how many MP’s voted for the act?
If it were less than half the MP’s in office at the time then it was forced onto the citizens of this country by a minority. That’s democracy???
No new law or an amendment to an existing law should go through on a minority vote. But then the government of the day is usually voted into office (not power as TB is so fond of stating) on a minority vote.
On BBC2 on Tuesday evenings there is a series on “History of Modern Britain” written and narrated by Andrew Marr and all past PM’s and MP’s depicted so far spoke of being “in office” and serving the country etc even if some of them made a hash of it. In one case (Suez) took us to war on a lie.
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"Democracy" in terms of how many people are voting for something isn't always a good thing, tyranny of the majority shouldn't exist.
As for the History of Mordern Britain, its brilliant, havn't got chance to watch this weeks yet though!