Re: Hunting is banned!

From: Rooney (pvrooney_at_aol.com)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:18:48 +0000

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:40:11 +0000 (GMT), John Cartmell
<john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <41a52244$0$43606$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
> Old Codger <oldcodger@anyoldwhere.net> wrote:
>> Rooney wrote:
>> > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:09:15 +0000, Oz <oz@farmeroz.port995.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Rooney <pvrooney@aol.com> writes
>> >>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:25:08 +0000, Oz <oz@farmeroz.port995.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> One function of a working democracy is to allow freedom for
>> >>>> minorities within it, where what they do does not affect others.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> That's nothing to do with the definition of democracy. It's just
>> >>> majority rule - no more, no less.
>> >>
>> >> I didn't say definition, I said 'one function of a working'.
>> >
>> >
>> > The function of a working democracy is to enact majority rule - no
>> > more, no less.
>
>> So we haven't got a working democracy. Young Tone did not get a majority
>> vote, just a majority of the parliamentary seats.
>
>I think you're (deliberately?) misunderstanding the meaning of 'majority
>vote'. The last time the majority vote didn't produce the next government
>was in 1951.

I think Old Codger means that there was no referendum. That's by the
by. There was an enormous majority in the commons - and that's the
system we've got. Some people are happy enough to praise our system
until they get a result they don't like. 

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