Brexit indicative votes

[mtbc]

I was pleased to learn of the mechanism of this evening's simultaneous indicative votes in the House of Commons and was surprised that at least something happened in the way I would have liked. I wondered how they organized the counting with all the options being on the same piece of paper. British elections can usually be quickly checked and recounted because the first step sorts the ballot papers into piles. Of course, the result turned out to be a sea of no which was not a useful outcome but I think that the exercise was worth a try.

Comments

[goldibehr]

This brexit situation is stupid and maddening to me. From what I can tell, the prime minister is not even trying to do what's good for the majority of the English people.

[mtbc]

I think it's bewildering everybody at home and overseas especially as how so much of where we've ended up was foreseeable. Sad to say I fear you have it worse over there though, the latest I now read being https://www.npr.org/2019/03/28/707166015/epa-science-panel-considering-guidelines-that-upend-basic-air-pollution-science (sigh). Maybe elections will fix things for us both someday!