I've been busy with the glue and paste and I've manged to piece together another section of the New Oxford History of Brexit Britain written some time after 2050. Read it ONLY HERE:
When people talked about ‘the coalition’ in the 2020s, they invariably
meant the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government that ruled from
2010 to 2015, but the real coalition in British politics was the one between
two ostensibly bitter rivals, the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. And
although, the Labour Party was an enthusiastic participant, this coalition was
fiercely conservative, resolutely blocking the changes that Britain needed, to
solve its deep-seated, long-standing problems.
The Labour-Conservative coalition obstinately defended
Brexit even when most British people had long ago realised it was a terrible
mistake, and that it had been imposed on them by a political process that could
most kindly be described as ‘unsatisfactory’, and which had effectively been
ruled illegal.
The Conservative-Labour coalition also fought like tigers
against any reform of the undemocratic ‘First Past the Post’ voting system,
which constantly awarded virtually absolute power to politicians most voters
had rejected.
So more than 63 per cent had voted against the notorious
Conservative government of 2015 that implemented the disastrous Brexit
referendum, while more than 56 per cent had opposed Boris Johnson’s vacuous
‘get Brexit done’ regime in 2019, and in the three supposed Thatcher 'landslides' of 1979-1987 she never won more than 43.9 per cent of the vote. But Labour also
benefited from this undemocracy, with Tony Blair gaining his first ‘landslide’ in
1997 with only 43 per cent of the vote, and his last election victory in
2005 with just 35 per cent. In other words, nearly two-thirds of voters opposed
him.
As the 21st century progressed, there was more
and more agonising and hand-wringing from Labour and Conservative politicians
about how voters were ‘alienated’ from the political process and about how
dangerous this was. Yet it seemed to occur to few of them that constantly
imposing on the British people governments they did not want would surely cause
‘alienation.’
As we now know, this fierce conservatism over Brexit and the
electoral system would have severe consequences for both parties, and, sadly,
for the people of Britain.
