Remain voters
I normally wait a day before commenting on news, just to let the dust settle but the Chesham and Amersham result set me thinking. How many seats are there where the Lib Dems came second at the last election? The answer is apparently 91, the vast majority of them now held by Conservatives and a very large number of them with disgruntled remainers in large numbers. The obvious solution to the Labour and the Lib Dem’s problem is therefore to vote tactically at a general election and with the resulting huge majority change the electoral system.
This could also be the chance to reset the UK’s relationship with the EU. Remember for the Tories a perpetual sense of conflict is what they need to maintain and damn the consequences. But a coalition government could promise to actually put in place the policies that won the referendum. Membership of the EEA, cooperation on science and education, common standards and perhaps most importantly an agreement on veterinary standards. The later would solve 80% of the problems with Northern Ireland overnight, but the current government refuses to do just that because it would “impinge on UK sovereignty. “
This is ideologically driven tosh, UK voters were promised an end to EU membership but all the benefits of membership and they didn’t get it or anything like it, as the ultras took over the negotiations and then the government. If only the Brexiteers had stuck to their word, had reached out to the remainers and negotiated in the best interests of the whole country, Brexit would be done and dusted and set in stone.
But they didn’t and it isn’t.
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