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Re: Ha

"This is government."

No, this is the government Middle England voted for. Forty years of the Tories or New Labour's centre-right (by traditional standards) Tory-lite acceptance and continuation of Thatcher's policies.

In short, a reflection of the fact that English politics have fundamentally diverged from those of Scotland and that not only is there clearly no prospect of changing things as long as Scotland remains within the Union, it is now paying the price for believing the lies of the "No to Independence" camp who used scaremongering about Scotland's position within the EU as a central tenet of their campaign.

Good thing we (#) trusted them on that one then, and a nation that voted 62% to 38% in favour of Remain isn't being dragged out of the EU as a result of sticking with its "chums" in Little England.

"How did right wing become an insult?"

It's not an insult (though feel free to take it that way), it's a statement of fact. The original impetus for Brexit came from those on the hard right of the Tory party.

The fact that some useful idiots on the hard left were also in favour of it for their own reasons (##) doesn't change the fact that the impetus for Brexit came from the right wing of the Tory party (and UKIP for those to the right of that). Cameron only entertained the idea to placate the Euro-sceptic right wing of his own party, treating the interests of the UK itself as a political football for its own in-fighting. Similarly, the vision of Brexit being pushed is that of the same Tory right- something which was obviously going to happen to anyone paying attention, but not for the gullibles that bought the "£350m a week for the NHS" line from the same UKIP types who had been arguing for its privatisation not long prior.

(#) Not myself personally, but- I suspect- a significant enough proportion of the generally more Unionist older generation that trusted those nice Messrs Cameron, Clegg and Milliband. Funny how they've all fucked off or been kicked out now and aren't in a position to deliver the transparently opportunistic promises they made at the time.

(##) I'm convinced- doubly so in the context of his later enthusiam to get on with Brexit- that Corbyn was never a convert to the Remain cause, and Labour's half-baked support for it was malicious "incompetence" on his part.