I agree with the `3/5 or 2/3 threshold instead` threshold, absolutely. You also understand that the referendum was never legally binding, if the politicians really didn't want to do exit the EU they could have deferred an exit, got a better deal, or just do nothing at all. The reality is, there was considerable wheel greasing to get Brexit moving through as quickly as possible once the Leave vote was in.
To be clear, many UK euro skeptics exist in parliament and are delighted with the vote [1]. That's a recent article but as far back as I can remember (1980/90s) the Tory Eurosceptics particularly have disliked Europe in principle. And the vote leave campaign was basically a quasi-coup conducted by the Eurosceptics fronted by Boris Johnson (MP) who is essentially a public school version of Trump.
Essentially D.Cameron said to his Eurosceptic members 'if I get in we'll have a vote'[2], and it backfired - the Eurosceptics mislead the public, he lost and had to resign and they got May into government without anyone even having to vote for her. In the face of such machinations you have to give me a pass on my own cynicism, it's hard to have any good faith confronted with such dishonest nonsense.
To say politicians didn't want Brexit is really misunderstanding a fundamental element of the UK's socio-political climate.
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I agree with the `3/5 or 2/3 threshold instead` threshold, absolutely. You also understand that the referendum was never legally binding, if the politicians really didn't want to do exit the EU they could have deferred an exit, got a better deal, or just do nothing at all. The reality is, there was considerable wheel greasing to get Brexit moving through as quickly as possible once the Leave vote was in.
To be clear, many UK euro skeptics exist in parliament and are delighted with the vote [1]. That's a recent article but as far back as I can remember (1980/90s) the Tory Eurosceptics particularly have disliked Europe in principle. And the vote leave campaign was basically a quasi-coup conducted by the Eurosceptics fronted by Boris Johnson (MP) who is essentially a public school version of Trump.
Essentially D.Cameron said to his Eurosceptic members 'if I get in we'll have a vote'[2], and it backfired - the Eurosceptics mislead the public, he lost and had to resign and they got May into government without anyone even having to vote for her. In the face of such machinations you have to give me a pass on my own cynicism, it's hard to have any good faith confronted with such dishonest nonsense.
To say politicians didn't want Brexit is really misunderstanding a fundamental element of the UK's socio-political climate.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/09/tory-mps-br... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Union_...