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The whole point of the Lib Dems supporting an in-out referendum was that in the event they were actually elected to power and therefore able to enact their platform, the UK would be in a state where they would obviously support "in" because the only people who would ever vote for the Lib Dems were people who were EU maximalists.

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that strategy worked great for the Tories

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The Tories were notably not a EU maximalist party and the only reason they added support for an in-out referendum was due to pressure from the side of the party who wanted "out".

The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about. I'm not really sure why you're bringing them up.

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> The Tories were notably not a EU maximalist party

funny, I distinctly remember the party spending a vast amount of money trying to get the British to vote Remain

> The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about.

you're... the one responding to my sub-thread, where I mentioned them in my first post

the tory connection is obviously relevant to Clegg's political career, where his main accomplishment was working with them, destroying his own party in the process