Brian
Eating fat, staying slim
It’s a bit more complicated than that, I think, though. It required a certain amount of tactical voting, and the Lib Dems didn’t make that any easier by their anti-Labour positioning. All the Tories needed to do was fragment the opposition. It’s a bit unfair to put the blame on the voters, faced with several options, when really it should have been for the pro-remain parties to put up a coherent front which people could have got behind. I think, had that happened, the outcome might have looked different. We’ll never know, so speculation is a bit pointless, but my main point is that it’s not right to blame the voters when the pro-remain parties all spectacularly fail to offer something they can work with.
That’s what I meant in my last post when I said, “why didn’t they organise themselves to actually do something?”. The tories/brexit party managed to do just that, remain supporting parties failed badly. If the leaders of SNP, LibDem, Plaid and others are as good as some say, why did they not get realistic about the situation? Only 2 parties can win a GE in the UK, they must know that. Instead, all we had was bickering and outright laughable shite from Swinson. After listening to her, how anyone voted LibDem other than on tactical grounds is a mystery to me. Why the party ever voted her as leader is another mystery.
Without analysing the results as I CBA, I believe Labour lost out on a lot of seats by a relatively small number, there could have been a major difference with a strategy from the remain parties.
In the end though, because these pro-remain parties couldn’t agree a strategy it was down to the voters to do what they considered best for stopping brexit if that was their motivation. Did LibDem supporters really believe they would win the GE outright and get to revoke A50? I doubt it. Did SNP and Plaid voters think their vote was going to help Labour win and get a second referendum? I doubt that too.
Everyone surely knew Labour was the only chance of stopping the tories.
You’ve changed your mind then? Earlier it was all down to just the leave voters. Someone other than me recognises an issue existed beyond the simplicity of just leave voters and you give it the thumbs up.Sadly this.
History isn’t going to show Brexit was all down to 17.2m who voted leave.