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> I am sure the demands of UK government are more than reasonable - and, as it is a democracy - as full endorsement of the people / users

"Full endorsement" of the electorate isn't how representative democracy works. Given FPTP, the government got a huge majority of seats with 33.7% of the votes, but as there's not universal voting that's only 14% of the actual population, and even with those who did vote it's not clear how many people were voting "not the other lot".



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