I'm confused. In what way were the Tories hedging after the referendum? Lab shifting to a second ref position was entirely due to internal moves against corbyn. And who was lying?
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May trying to get a deal that respected the 'red lines', and was slightly less bad than the worst possible deal. Not much to you and me but a massive betrayal to a lot of leavers (who obvs never trusted her anyway). The alternative was going 'full boris', getting out asap even if no deal etc
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Labour could hold on to leavers in a world where the tories weren't 'delivering brexit' and were telling people the kind of deal mattered. As soon as tories went 'brexit or bust' labour was gonna lose a lot of them. And labour's only value to remain was if it could bring leavers on board with a >
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compromise. Once your voter coalition is remain-dominated there's nobody to compromise with so no point in acceoting weak sauce. Perfectly rational to vote lib dem at that point,since they are actually offering what you actually want.
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Ps 'lying' was just the classic example of a strategy that works really well for a bit but when it stops working goes really bad really fast. I was just using in abstract sense. Not making accusations.
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