The whole idea was daft in the first place. Done to silence the Tory right and UKIP once and for all. Except it massively backfired. All about internal Tory party infighting.
And here we are. A split nation with nobody happy....
Indeed. Absolute utter selfishness
It was to pull the significant extreme right wing of the party in line, and yes kill UKIP. Cameron and his buddies didn’t think for one minute what would happen if they lost the subsequent referendum.
Hundreds of thousands, across many industries, as companies moved thier business to Europe and we were forced to privatise our state-owned enterprises, with only the NHS surviving the cherry picking
This was one of the problems with the EU referendum. We’d had some 37 odd years of right wing neo liberal governments. Privatise everything, even schools and hospitals have been partially privatised through the PFI PPP debacles, social and care contracts privatised, our prisons privatised, social housing – everything privatised. The Tory dream of a flexible low wage economy. Our terms and conditions slashed, pay the employee what you can get away with and maximise profit at every opportunity. Over three decades of socialism for the rich.
None of it EU policy. This was all done by the Tories with New Labour carrying on their work.
So no wonder people were and are pissed off. We’ve been getting screwed for decades, even to the point we now have austerity and food banks for the hungry in nearly every major town across the country.
Given a ball to kick, well even people who had never ever voted before in their life came out registered to vote and kicked that ball hard.
Sadly we kicked the wrong ball. The EU is not to blame for our ills, our own governments screwed us.
BREXIT is simply a continuation of Thatcherism, the extreme right of the Tory Party is getting it’s way. They are going to finish the job she started, and you and I are going to pay the price.