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It will always be a problem for as long as "37% of the electorate" is masqueraded by politicians and news media as a majority. 63% of the electorate didn't vote for any kind of Brexit, and had it been an actual constitutional referendum (as opposed to an opinion poll), then the majority 63% would have prevailed. Or, to put it another way, the 37% minority would have failed.

Imagine the UK news media outrage if a trade union strike ballot were organised the same way, and a strike were to proceed on the basis of 37% membership endorsement! It would immediately be denounced as a tyranny of a minority, and undemocratic.

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