In article , Adrian
writes
On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:27:57 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In general, things only ever get near a vote for industrial action
when negotiations have failed. And the workforce are well aware of
this. I've personally never seen any vote for industrial action where
the result wasn't an overwhelming majority in favour. Can't really
see any point in going to the vote if you don't already know there is
a big majority in favour of it.

So a requirement for 40% of those eligible to be in support _really_
shouldn't be a big issue, should it...?

Shouldn't be an issue to have the same sort of thing for parliamentary
elections either.

Not quite so simple, since it's not yes/no.

Some form of compulsory voting. Other countries do it.

Indeed. Probably some kind of minimum turnout/quorum, though, would would
better.

And the same for voting within parliament.

No excuses there. They're paid to bloody debate and vote, they can bloody
debate and vote.
They do according to party whip system. Those who might be absent on
other business can pair with someone who is also going to be absent but
would vote the opposite way.
--
bert