XPost: uk.radio.amateur, uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y 
 From: dave@davenoise.co.uk 
  
 In article <1ofgcwz.1f6mbsh2at7hnN%roger@hayter.org>, 
    Roger Hayter  wrote: 
 > Saying that you need a super-majority after the event (as Farage said 
 > before the result but after the process had been agreed) may be corrupt. 
 > But to need a super-majority for change is not in the least corrupt.  It 
 > is very common both in referenda and company articles of association or 
 > in rules for national constitutions.  Apart from anything else it 
 > reduces the chance of oscillating from one position to the other every 
 > few years. 
  
 Quite. Doubt our right wing friends on here raised any objections when 
 Thatcher legislated for more than a simple majority for strike action. 
  
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