To be fair the Remain campaign was led by tories: they were, and are, trying to get rid of the NHS (bit by bit, neoliberal “reform” after “reform”) so it would have been difficult for them to have convincingly led a campaign on that issue.
Much like a convincing remain message was fatally compromised by the fact that racist dog-whistle anti-europeanism has been the default message from the tories since Thatcher.
While Cameron was always utterly incompetent and it is an indictment of contemporary conservatism that such a feeble minded person rose through their ranks to leadership there is no tory that could lead that campaign due to their history and conflicted nature. They love anti-democratic “free trade” mechanisms that drive a relentless race to the bottom in rights and protections but in order to get the working class to side with them they need to blame it on foreign others.
The EU and EU migration was a useful focus for them.
Well, if Johnny Rotten can get knifed a bit for singing God Save the Queen, I think they can do better for someone who actively fucked the whole country.
That’s a cute but irrelevant statistic. If anything, haven’t people around here suggested how nice it would be to weaken one’s currency, to make exports more attractive?
Try some GDP numbers, in due course. “tanked” indeed.
The very one! She precisely epitomises the Tory contradiction: they actually love the undemocratic corporate rule/neoliberalism of the “free trad” EU but as a party of capital their main source of popular support is racism/xenophobia/the “other”. Thatcher was an evil racist shit.
She loved free movement of capital.
Many of the people whose lives she ruined loved her.
