Brexit: UK votes to leave EU in historic referendum

[Ninurta]

Here's one that shows the average mentality of people today.

Angry Brits are demanding a re-run of the referendum following Friday's narrow decision
to leave the EU.

A petition calling for a second EU referendum has topped TWO MILLION signatures - more
than doubling the highest signed in parliamentary history.
The popular petition, which was started just one day ago, attracted so many signatures when
it first opened that the government's website crashed.

The enormous surge followed the initial 100,000 signatures which were created in a bid to get
London Mayor Sadiq Khan to declare the capital as independent.
Protesters are hoping that Khan will call for London to be classed separately from the UK and
therefore be able to apply to join the European Union.

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What isn't said is that only 35,000 are British signatures and 13,000 of them are French!
Think about that, a country decides via a ballot to do something and those who disagree
with the outcome demand that the country goes again... AND some of them don't even
live that country!!

But, the idea of creating a 'Vatican'-like capital for the sake of no getting one's own way in a
democratically-agreed ballot tells you a lot about today's society.

I had not heard about the French voters, but I DID hear that it was discovered that 30,000 votes on that petition came from a town of 800. I scratched my head a moment, and decided that I might need to go back to university for a refresher course in maths, because I'm certain now that I don't have a firm grasp on the "New Math".

The idea of demanding re-vote after re-vote until you get the results you want seems to be the going thing in 21st century politics. I blame that on the scientists of the 80's and 90's, because i witnessed them repeating experiment after experiment until they got the results they wanted to "prove" whatever the fad point of the moment was... they seem to have come up with the idea.

"Keep doing it until you get it right", eh? That saying was good enough for my math teacher in school (the one with those long, LONG legs!), so it's good enough for the 21st century, isn't it?