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>>amarch+(OP)
Isn't UK a democracy? Why then have the people not rejected the initiative? Ah, right - they haven't even been asked.

>>la_mez+1U1
It's representative democracy so we can choose which party who will misrepresent us. Then choose another one which will misrepresent us.

It's about time that idea was crushed and we moved to voting on policies rather than parties and personalities. There isn't a one size fits all party.

>>crinkl+UI2
But we know from comparative study of representative democracy that it does work, and it doesn't have to be "misrepresenting", and the reason certain representative democracies do a bad job of representation boils down to features o their electoral structures that produce results that are both poorly representative in the immediate term, and which also narrow the space of ideas and debate in the longer term.

> There isn't a one size fits all party.

Seems to be a non-sequitur, there isn't a one-size fits all policy, either.