If you’ve looked at this site you will already know that I am,
- a) A Brexiteer and voter,
- b) A Conservative voter
- c) Something of a Libertarian but with.
- d) A Unionist & Nationalist commitment.
In fact I (like to) think I’m not alone in my overall views. A basic old-style ‘Conservative’
I admit I’m old enough to have voted in both of the last two Referenda. For the EEC in the first and against the EU in the last. In 2016 I was surprised by the result – pleasantly I must add, but surprised none the less. I had expected the vote to go the other way, but by a similar though smaller margin. To be honest, that was pretty much the opinion of our Governing Elite, their Hired-help/Servants and their Media (State funded and otherwise).
For our Governing Elite it was a major ‘kicking’. From their perspective a catastrophic error. We were told how we should vote and why – and we didn’t!
Some say Cameron then fell on his (political) sword. I prefer to think that he chucked his toys out of the pram and quit having made a massive political mistake.
As a long-time Conservative voter I believed Cameron’s unexpected electoral success after his coalition with the Lib-Dems was based on his promise of an EU referendum, not on a mediocre platform of poorly defined ‘Compassionate Conservative Social(ist) reform’ and intrusive micro-management of peoples private lives – that’s not what he called it but that’s what it was!
David Cameron went off to visit his soulmates in Brussels and went through the motions of trying to negotiate a new relationship with the EU but both sides had substantially misread Cameron’s election victory (such as it was) and the mood of a substantial part of Britain’s electorate,. not least UKIP’s single issue voters. Neither side felt any compelling imperative to change and disrupt what both perceived as merely a transition toward a United States of Europe. After all, once the referendum was dealt with the EU Superstate was all but inevitable.
I suspect that having ‘Tangoed’ through the Halls of Power with the Lib-Dems for all that time, each side grooming the other, there are many in the Party who are much more comfortable with a European Social-Democratic platform of Federalism and a Regional rather than a Sovereign Parliament in Westminster. And these folk are calling themselves ‘Conservative’ and (currently) have charge of the Party and Government.
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