In message , Chris Hogg
writes
On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 12:14:55 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The vast majority want to leave, and have, at least temporarily, and, as
yet to be seen how wisely, trusted Boris to do it.

Can you do simple maths?

If so, add up all the votes for the leave parties. Tory, Brexit, DUP.

Now add up the votes for those who advocated remain or a second
referendum. Labour, LD, SNP etc.

And give us the result.

From the BBC results table*:
Conservatives (leave) 13.9M
Labour (on the fence, so don't count and paid dearly for it) 10.3M
Lib-Dem (remain) 3.7M
SNP (remain) 1.2M
All the rest (various opinions, but none large enough to make much
difference) 1.7M

Which gives Leavers (Conservatives) 13.9M; Remainers (Lib-Dems and
SNP) 4.9M. Total who expressed a strong commitment one way or the
other 18.8M. Leavers 74% of the committed; Remainers 26%. I'd say that
was a pretty convincing majority for leaving.

Of course, if JC hadn't sat so firmly on the fence (and had that fence
right-royally shoved up you-know-where by the voters, with a worse
result than even Michael Foot in 1983, which has to be some sort of an
achievement) then the Labour votes could be included into one or the
other totals. But as he didn't, they can't. As I said up-thread,
people who were strongly committed to remaining could have voted
Lib-Dem, so the Labour votes can't be assumed to have voted either
way, and certainly not to remain.

* http://tinyurl.com/s3gj2yh

I thought London was for remaining generally and they tend to vote
Labour so you might need some adjustment to the above.

My Lib Dem vote was wasted as Harpenden and Hitchin retained their *toe
the line in hope of promotion* MP despite voting remain in the
referendum.

I don't think a future opportunity to say *I told you so* is a desirable
objective so would prefer the issue to go away.


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Tim Lamb