• vivadanang@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    non-uk person here, how did they get bullied into it? conservatives seemed to love brexit from my recollection

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      1 year ago

      A handful of Conservatives were being dumb and were advocating for brexit, David Cameron (Cons PM) didn’t want brexit but was like sure let’s have a vote on it, and he was confident the British people would just vote to stay so they didn’t do much campaigning.

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      1 year ago

      The individual MPs were told they had to toe the party line or else face deselection (be fired)