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Do you see the problem here though?
50% votes and to make it worse, cretinous FPTP system makes it that a party with 30%odd support get absolute majority of MPs. As a result, 15%—20% of population is able to get majority of MPs.
In the UK terms, due to lack of constitution, check and balances, it means these 20% are able to select their own elective dictatorship.
This is a disaster waiting to happen. It was already quite close with BoJo.
I'm not saying it's a good situation, but there's a significant minority out there who simply couldn't give any less of a toss about politics and about voting.
Those people are not going to be convinced to turn out to vote whatever happens.
If I understand correctly, it's close to a majority that can't be arsed to vote. Maybe we should ask why, rather than assume these people are lazy or disinterested.
It's something that's been asked repeatedly. Besides lazy or disinterested, a lot of them are also really, really dumb