Thread by @nickreeves9876

Dear Dominic Cummings what is 'elite Remain'? After the referendum almost all the leading Remainers instantly turned into frothing Brexiters - meaning they never were Remainers. No Remainer would collude in inflicting Brexit on the British people. At best they are opportunists.

https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1448205082844143616

The top echelons of the Remain campaign were staffed by politicians who either were closet Brexiters (not so closet in Corbyn's case) or cynical opportunists blowing with the political wind who really didn't give a damn whether we stayed in the EU. And we still won 48%!

The Remain campaign was basically nobbled from the beginning by being staffed by politicians who either actively wanted it to fail, or didn't really care what happened so long as they could advance their careers.

Brexit has been a catastrophic failure of UK democracy.

If the top levels of the Remain campaign had been staffed by real Remainers, the campaign would, I believe, almost certainly have won. The fire and passion would have been there. Voters would have felt the real emotional impact.

After 2016 real Remainers created a grassroots Remain movement, and despite the hostility of almost the entire political and media elite that movement helped win, from 2017 onwards, a popular majority against Brexit - a majority which Brexit politicians undemocratically ignored.