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muriel_volestrangler

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1. The right of the Tory party has, for a couple of decades, wanted to get out of the EU

Reply to ellenrr (Original post)

Thu Jun 23, 2016, 07:39 PM

Jun 2016

ever since John Major signed the Maastricht Agreement in the mid 90s. They were gradually losing more and more support to the single-issue UKIP party over this - in the 2014 EU parliament election, UKIP got more votes than any other party. So Cameron said he'd hold a referendum if he won the 2015 general election, to keep voters in the Tory party. He did a bit of negotiation, and thought he had a defensible 'Remain' position, and called the referendum.

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Pls inform this ignorant American (me) [View all] ellenrr Jun 2016 OP

The right of the Tory party has, for a couple of decades, wanted to get out of the EU muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #1

thank you. nt ellenrr Jun 2016 #2