Comment by pjc50
7 hours ago
> nationalists and right-leaning groups haven't really been in charge of the UK.
Did you miss the whole Brexit thing?
7 hours ago
> nationalists and right-leaning groups haven't really been in charge of the UK.
Did you miss the whole Brexit thing?
No, I didn't. But I wouldn't claim that a referendum that was voted on by the people of the country to be the same thing as right-leaning groups being in control of the government of the UK.
Depends on who influenced them / paid for those buses.
No it doesn't. If the right was in charge of the government of the UK they wouldn't have needed to have a referendum or drum up support for it.
Here's perhaps a concrete example to help piece this together. I live in Ohio. Our state government is right-leaning, and controlled by the Republican Party. The Republican Party has an anti-abortion platform.
A couple of years ago, citizens got together, created, and then passed an amendment to the Ohio Constitution providing abortion access as a legal right.
The right is still in control of the government, and that is true regardless of who paid to support the referendum, or how it was voted.