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If I’m not mistaken, the pro-Brexit party (they call them Torys) has been in charge. If they want to move in a different direction, they need to vote different people in, which has not been happening very quickly.

Politics is complicated, basically.

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li10@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Worth noting that the true pro-Brexit party was UKIP, but the conservatives wanted their voters so adopted a pro brexit stance.

I don’t think most Tory’s really wanted it to happen (bad for business), David Cameron thought he could get an easy win by holding a referendum and nipping the Brexit talk in the bud, but bit off more than he could chew.

Brexit remained popular with voters for a while, and conservatives have leaned into it being the right decision and demonising immigrants since because they’re fucking up everything else.

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- vind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Many Tory’s wanted it to happen so they could create a corporation-haven of sorts without the EU having a say in it. Essentially getting rid of “annoying” regulations that keeps people safe.
  
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  - li10@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, I think there was a bit of a split.
    
    Either way, both sides had self serving intentions, which is oddly enough what unites the conservatives.
    
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redders@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s really weird, as the whole EU deal was Margaret Thatcher’s legacy, and her own party threw it away!!!

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- someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think they wanted to play on the EU outage, but the didn’t actually want to leave.
  
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- Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The EU deal was nothing to do with Thatcher. She never wanted the UK to join the EU and vehemently opposed the Maastricht Treaty.
  
  She supported economic union, not political.
  
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- rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m no fan of Thatcher but she did some good things during her tenure - negotiating the UK’s place in the EU and setting up Channel 4 spring to mind - and I honestly think she would be utterly devastated if she saw what her party had become today.
  
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