2019-26 Letter in The Guardian, 19 Sept.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Deborda
Maybe we are nearly all partly right — Labour, Lib-Dem, Green et al, including some honest Tories. Maybe the mistake is the notion that a non-binary problem can be solved by a binary vote. However, as Pliny the Younger pointed out in 105 AD, in a multi-option debate, if there is no majority for any one thing, there is a majority against every single thing.
So, on complex issues, votes in parliament, referendums, party conferences, etc., should be multi-optional and, ideally, preferential.

 

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