Democracy and the Need for a Voter Certification Test

Democracy is the belief that society should go in the direction which the majority of people support, this is not necessarily the "right" direction. Therefore, whether one is qualified or not to decide is of no importance.

Unfettered democracy as you describe isn’t really a good idea nor is it the system in place in the UK

Since the system is liberal-democratic, the suffrage is universal. In modern times, before democracy was really a thing, purely "liberal" regimes excluded from the franchise people who hadn't spent a sufficient amount of time in education or whose income/wealth was below a certain threshold. Democracy is the belief that everyone should vote, and this is the system in place.

Obviously, it is a representative liberal-democracy, and sovereignty doesn't belong to the people (in this the UK is an exception), so justice isn't administrated by majority vote and democracy isn't direct at all (while other states have binding referendums which constitute a form of direct democracy inside a representative system).

Well that’s not entirely true, we still restrict who can vote, children and prisoners being two obvious examples.



We should count ourselves lucky that laws aren’t passed based on a majority vote

Says this and then proceeds to moan against liberaldemocrats who don't want to brexit despite the referendum, I guess.

Every liberal-democratic system has restrictions on children and prisoners, but the franchise is still "universal".