I was discussing this with a British ex-pat; they do stuff a bit different over there. It does seem bogus that something that takes a simple majority should be finagled to need 61% instead. We get the government we deserve! Representative republics have a lot of inertia but if enough people get p*ssed off at the status quo it might turn around. But, the public is SO polarized now! It's pretty discouraging for a middle of the road Libertarian when both Liberal and Conservative are used pejoratively.