Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
I'll just say it once more. Referenda are for big important decisions that seriously affect a nations future. The people who vote want to change the staus quo, anyone who doesn't vote is assumned to not want to change the status quo. That is the whole point. So what you said cannot be assumed, is exactly what is assumed. It is the whole point of putting 1 question to a referendum, iot cannot be left to politicians to ovte on because the one single question is too big and too important.
Anyone that does not vote is not assumed to not want to change the status quo, they may have no opinion one way or the other or might genuinely don't know what way to vote.

The 'leave' vote in the Brexit referendum had what about 37.4% under your way of looking at things and the 'remain' vote about 62.6% because you are lumping the people that wanted the status quo to remain and people that did not vote all together.

So I take it that you think we should stay in the EU as 51.89% of the vote with a 72.21% turnout was nowhere near good enough for us to leave ?