Electoral (il)logic
Tuesday, 28 June 2016 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bens_dadIn May, Muirfield Golf Club voted 64% - 36% to allow women as members.
Apparently this is not enough to change the rules, so a second vote is being held
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/27/muirfield-golf-club-to-hold-second-vote-on-female-membership
So nearly two-thirds want something to happen but it can't.
Last week the UK voted 51.9% - 48.1% to leave the UK, but it seems that although a very close result, that is definitive enough that we are committed to head in a novel direction, with substantial consequences for a significant part of the world's population, but without a plan or anyone prepared to actually lead us there.
The Brexit referendum was "advisory" - why can't the government do what it usually does with advice: ignore it and do what it wants anyway ?
Apparently this is not enough to change the rules, so a second vote is being held
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/27/muirfield-golf-club-to-hold-second-vote-on-female-membership
So nearly two-thirds want something to happen but it can't.
Last week the UK voted 51.9% - 48.1% to leave the UK, but it seems that although a very close result, that is definitive enough that we are committed to head in a novel direction, with substantial consequences for a significant part of the world's population, but without a plan or anyone prepared to actually lead us there.
The Brexit referendum was "advisory" - why can't the government do what it usually does with advice: ignore it and do what it wants anyway ?
