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If I dare attempt a tl;dr of Steve's packed thread....
"We were not electing Vote Leave but everyone acted as though we did."
And so after 23/6, everyone hung on every word uttered by Leave politicians.
I have banged on about this to the point of exhaustion and.... https://twitter.com/EmporersNewC/status/1327002960484818945
"We were not electing Vote Leave but everyone acted as though we did."
And so after 23/6, everyone hung on every word uttered by Leave politicians.
I have banged on about this to the point of exhaustion and.... https://twitter.com/EmporersNewC/status/1327002960484818945
You can find my history of this by using the following search term:
from:rolandmcs electing vote leave
But here's the rub....
from:rolandmcs electing vote leave
But here's the rub....
In the final analysis, if everyone believes/believed we were electing Vote Leave....then we kind of were.
It becomes like the period before the boy laughs at the naked emperor.
It becomes the lived experience.
It becomes like the period before the boy laughs at the naked emperor.
It becomes the lived experience.
Our FPTP election culture and our corresponding lack of "referendum culture" meant we as a society were always going to lean this way. That's what I couldn't see - the fact of "not electing Vote Leave" didn't matter as much as ingrained British political culture.
It's why in the end Theresa May had to inhale Vote Leave narratives and she eventually rejected single market membership (it helped that she dislikes free movement).
It's arguably why May failed in the end - she had drifted too far from the Vote Leave script. And it's why we now have a Vote Leave govt.
So in the end, we did elect Vote Leave. What everyone expected & "willed" since 2016 has happened.
And that's why it's all gone badly wrong.
So in the end, we did elect Vote Leave. What everyone expected & "willed" since 2016 has happened.
And that's why it's all gone badly wrong.
Because in the end, the emperor has no clothes.
