I don’t pretend to know all that much about British politics, but it strikes me that the Conservative Party is suffering from one of the anti-democratic maladies for which the Republican Party has become notorious.
Apparently, the British people, if given the chance, would vote to reverse the Brexit vote.It was, after all, the result of fraud on the part of its proponents mixed with a healthy dose of Russian interference. (Sounds familiar doesn’t it?) Yet Theresa may will have none of it:
With talk of a second referendum growing, May again reiterated her opposition to another vote last night and said parliament had “a democratic duty to deliver what the British people voted for”. She even described Tony Blair’s recent appearance in Brussels to support a second vote as “an insult to the office he once held and the people he once served.”
At first glance, you’d think that a second referendum would be a no-brainer, since if, as expected, it reversed the first referendum, there would be no need to come up with an exit strategy, which so far has proven to be impossible. Not only that, it might salvage May’s tenuous grip on her office.
The only explanation that makes sense to me is that May is terrified of her base, just as our Republican politicians are terrified of theirs.
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