Originally Posted by
jackal2
I think you probably accurately reflect the agenda of many in the House of Commons, but if they think the Brexiteers in Parliament and the country will then fade away, then they must be so naïve as to be not worthy of any form of elected office.
The political and societal problems which led to the Leave vote have not gone away, in fact they're getting steadily worse, and if the political classes are perceived to have conspired to water down or disregard the will of so many people, then the anger and disillusionment with the establishment will only continue to grow. The Leave vote was, in effect, a way of kicking "the man". It was a staging post, a pressure release valve, a relatively gentle warning of the ever more deep-rooted disillusionment of significant section of the population, and yet a large number of supposedly experienced and intelligent politicians and civil servants apparently can't see it from their ivory towers in Westminster.
If your intention was to engineer a set of circumstances that could eventually lead to a (probably hard-right) populist Government in this country (which the current Conservative/DUP Government certainly is not) then you would probably be extremely pleased with the direction of travel right now.