>>39982955My political position is whatever will get Mr. Speaker to raise his voice the loudest
The fact remains that if the PM's seat was still a safe place for a brexiteer then the Libdems would still be languishing in post-coalition irrelevance
>>39982973We have to rewind a few elections. Coming out of the Coalition, pundits were predicting a repeat hung parliament. The previous term had proved disastrous for basically everyone involved, so the tories wanted more than anything else not to repeat that. The talking point going into the election was a Labour "Coalition of Chaos" like the Tory/Libdem one before it. Their biggest losses were to UKIP candidates, so to court that voterbase back they put the referendum on their manifesto, with NO intention to fulfill it. If things turned out as close as everyone was expecting, then they wouldn't need to try and accomplish all their manifesto goals in the same way that the Libdems gave up on tuition fees during the Coalition.
Unfortunately everyone was wrong and they got a clear majority handily, so they had no option but to go through with it even though official policy from number 10 was
>DO>NOT>LEAVE>FULL STOPwhich is why all the in-party who brought it about were Remain campaigners- including the PM himself- and all the Leave campaigners were literal whos and career politicians like Gove and Johnson.
We all know what went down after that, so basically what it amounts to is the fulfillment of the career suicide he commit by bringing about the one fucking thing the tory party proper did not want to happen under any circumstance, ruining everything they'd accomplished by making an effective two-party system by making the Libdems irrelevant.
