The Alternative Vote

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[How] Did you vote for AV?

Yes to AV
29
71%
No to AV
10
24%
Didn't vote
2
5%
 
Total votes: 41
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Sput
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Magnanimous in victory, aren't we.
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marksi
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Not a victory for democracy.

Northern Ireland had the closest vote I believe, with 57% NO, 43% YES.

Now we're stuffed as the question won't be asked again for 20 years.

Will the UK exist in it's present form by then anyway? Perhaps not.
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DVB Cornwall
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Sput wrote:Magnanimous in victory, aren't we.
Doesn't need any comment, the result speaks for itself, and rather tham inflame the situation was better left as a matter of reported fact.
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Finn
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DVB Cornwall wrote:Doesn't need any comment, the result speaks for itself, and rather tham inflame the situation was better left as a matter of reported fact.
DVB Cornwall wrote:Admittedly better than I hoped for.
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Alexia
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I feel the need for a Left Wing Summer.
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DVB Cornwall
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Neil DG wrote:
DVB Cornwall wrote:Doesn't need any comment, the result speaks for itself, and rather tham inflame the situation was better left as a matter of reported fact.
DVB Cornwall wrote:Admittedly better than I hoped for.
... comment about the result of the referendum, not the cause being promoted and opposed,
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Sput
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DVB Cornwall wrote:
Sput wrote:Magnanimous in victory, aren't we.
Doesn't need any comment, the result speaks for itself, and rather tham inflame the situation was better left as a matter of reported fact.
Indeed, but it's still interesting that you felt the need to relay it when it was obviously so well-publicised on every platform imaginable. Can you see how that might be regarded as gloating?
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DVB Cornwall
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Not at all.... just bringing the story to a conclusion, which I would have done if the result was in the other direction.
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DVB Cornwall wrote:Not at all.... just bringing the story to a conclusion, which I would have done if the result was in the other direction.
Bollocks.
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dosxuk
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Philip wrote:NO WINS.

:D
Why did you vote No?
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BBC LDN
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I'm not sure why some members think it's perfectly acceptable to discuss how disastrous this result is, and to criticise those who voted No, yet when one member alludes to being pleased by the result, it's considered wholly unacceptable, and worthy of ridicule and scorn.

Why is it okay for those who voted Yes to have their say on the result, yet when a No voter does the same, it's time to kick up a stink and mock him for failing to be magnanimous?

The No vote won by a considerable margin. We should be able to discuss that fact from both the winning and losing sides with some maturity here. Nobody is gloating, no-one is rubbing it in anyone's face, no-one is laughing at those who fought hard but ultimately did not win. So instead of attacking those on the side that did win - and while you're busy demanding magnanimity in their victory - perhaps you could find within yourselves a little bit of grace, and perhaps even some humility, in defeat. At the moment, all I'm seeing here is sour grapes, and frankly it's fucking childish.
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