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The Tories have always been a minority. It’s why May is unable to see the other side. The U.K. votes roughly 60:40 centre-left v centre-right
It’s a weird country where a centre-left majority supports a right-wing media, but that’s where we are. The Tories have always had a minority siege mentality and a weird inferiority complex
They have to do a lot of running around in their Union Jack underpants, shouting at the world, to make themselves seem bigger than they are
They secure power more often than not, but only because of the UK’s bizarre ‘first past the post’ electoral system. But it doesn’t give them actual legitimacy. It just gives them power
But they’ve all grown up with this, perpetuating the endless scam that a Party that speaks for less than half the country can pretty much do what it wants
It’s precisely why May is now unable to compromise and why Brexiteer Tories spout endless entitled bullshit. It’s the only scam they’ve ever known
And - at last - their bluff has been called. The emperor has been asked what he is wearing. And they have no answer.
Brexit is dead.
Brexit is dead.
The Tories did this because they thought they could. They thought their egos and personal ambitions would allow them to trash the country yet again.
And - at last - they’ve been caught out. The voters aren’t all fools. The country is not their plaything. A minority mandate is not good enough.
