Reply To: More on Brexit

October 2026 › Forums › General discussion › More on Brexit › Reply To: More on Brexit

#184710
rodshaw
Participant

Just standing back a bit from this whole rigmarole…in a way I’m amazed at all the political contortions over the last couple of years. I’d have thought, in my simplistic way, that the big players in the ruling class, i.e. the manufacturers, industrialists and other capitalists who wanted to stay in the EU, would immediately after the referendum have strong-armed the government into ensuring as soft a Brexit as possible.

Why didn’t this happen? Did they not have that much clout after all?