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by ericmay 48 days ago
England has gotten more liberal over time, not less. I'm not following your logic here. It seems you're wanting to criticize the government of the UK for being authoritarian and ratcheting up the surveillance state, but simultaneously criticize nationalists and link them to this government, but nationalists and right-leaning groups haven't really been in charge of the UK.
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pjc50 47 days ago
> nationalists and right-leaning groups haven't really been in charge of the UK.

Did you miss the whole Brexit thing?

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ericmay 47 days ago
No, I didn't. But I wouldn't claim that a referendum that was voted on by the people of the country to be the same thing as right-leaning groups being in control of the government of the UK.
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haritha-j 47 days ago
Depends on who influenced them / paid for those buses.
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ericmay 47 days ago
No it doesn't. If the right was in charge of the government of the UK they wouldn't have needed to have a referendum or drum up support for it.

Here's perhaps a concrete example to help piece this together. I live in Ohio. Our state government is right-leaning, and controlled by the Republican Party. The Republican Party has an anti-abortion platform.

A couple of years ago, citizens got together, created, and then passed an amendment to the Ohio Constitution providing abortion access as a legal right.

The right is still in control of the government, and that is true regardless of who paid to support the referendum, or how it was voted.

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