• vivadanang@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      non-uk person here, how did they get bullied into it? conservatives seemed to love brexit from my recollection

      • BenGFHC@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        1 year ago

        A handful of Conservatives were being dumb and were advocating for brexit, David Cameron (Cons PM) didn’t want brexit but was like sure let’s have a vote on it, and he was confident the British people would just vote to stay so they didn’t do much campaigning.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        The individual MPs were told they had to toe the party line or else face deselection (be fired)