Reform

[Stirlingsays]

Cant really blame them. The vast majority of the parliamentary party were Remainers. What would you do if you passionately held a view opposite to the majority of the Tory rank and file?

You either resign, get culled, or toe the line as the Party pivots to capture the popular vote.

Also, was their position really as disingenuous/insincere as you suggest? They were, after all, voted in to represent the views of their constituents. Surely, this was our imperfect democracy at work.

But not to reflect them, which is the problem.....Cameron ensured that, aside from ethnic intake, all the candidates would reflect his 'wet' type of Conservative.....So the MP intake became just variations of Cameronites.

But the Tory base, on average, was quite further to the right than Cameron.

A party, left or right, that is fighting with its base is doomed to failure.

The Tories and indeed Labour lied to their base and essentially deserve what is happening to them.

 

[Stirlingsays]

Remember this when anyone on the remainer ticket tries to convince you that leaving the EU was a bad thing.

Outside of the EU and the ECHR, we can choose to send all of them back if we choose to.....Inside the EU we can't.