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There are 64.1 million people on this ship
Votes for babies!
Votes on everything! I didn't get to vote on every specific detail of the recent trade deal with India!
I want my country back!
In all seriousness, it's a representive democracy, it's what happens sometimes.
I'd only want a GE if the alternative was Article 50 being triggered.
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Well here we're not actually talking about voting on the minutiae of policy detail. Not at all actually. In fact it's literally the opposite of what you just said.
It isn't as if Osborne had just had a promotion either. I don't think anyone would have predicted the other year that May would be PM and that a silm government would be negotiating arguably the most important international deal in the county's history.
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There are 64.1 million people on this ship, 35k local constituents and ~200 MPs are the only ones who have in any way voted for the person who will now be steering this ship.
I do agree that we need uncertainty removed, and stability restored, as soon as possible. But that isn't achieved by having a leader whose vision was only voted on by ~0.0005% of the population.
It's quite fucked.