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Re:UK to depart from GDPR by pjc50 on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:49PM (#26438558)
> the people who actually rule - the MPs in parliament - are predominantly remainers

This is false, because every time it was presented for a vote Leave won. If the majority were Remain, Brexit would necessarily not have happened.

As for the alleged ordinary voters, what did they want out of it and what are they actually getting out of it?

Re:UK to depart from GDPR by gmueckl on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:16PM (#26440374)
That's also not the whole story. The House of Commons was completely divided on the issue to the point where the Remainers couldn't find a common position and any proposal going roughly in their direction was shot down by the other parties in their own camp because it somehow didn't represent their exact idea of staying close to the EU. It was so bad that the House had long phases where literally everything that might have meant the slightest bit of progress was consistently and summarily voted down. If this divide hadn't happened, Leave would have had a much harder time. They did play very dirty procedural tricks on the House of Commons as it was to try and force things their way.
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by hayd on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:46PM (#26442798)
There's a big difference between having voted to remain vs want to overturn the result of the referendum. Luckily most of those who actually were in the latter camp were kicked out by their electorates in 2019.