XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur 
 From: incubus9536612@gmail.com 
  
 On 2019-10-15, Dave Plowman (News)  wrote: 
 > In article , 
 >    Incubus  wrote: 
 >> > Have you a short memory? After the referendum, we had a general 
 >> > election. With May asking the country for a decent majority to carry 
 >> > out Brexit. And she ended up with no real working majority. And UKIP 
 >> > decimated. 
 >> > 
 >> > Why do you think that was, if 'the will of the people' was a nice 
 >> > clean quick Brexit? 
 > 
 >> You're an idiot if you think the General Election was only about leaving 
 >> the EU. 
 > 
 > And you're an even bigger idiot if you didn't think it the most important 
 > issue by far. 
  
 Given that the two parties that received the lion's share of the vote both 
 said 
 they would respect the referendum, you'd have to be a moron of epic 
 proportions 
 to draw any conclusions from Theresa May's reduction of the majority that 
 David 
 Cameron handed to her. 
  
 >>  You're an even worse idiot if you think that a growing distrust for a 
 >> PM who ran with an absolutely terrible manifesto and succeeded in making 
 >> herself look worse as time went on can be framed in terms of "will of 
 >> the people". 
 > 
 > She didn't have time for most to form an opinion of her as PM before 
 > calling that election. 
  
 As I said, for those who aren't paying attention, she had a disastrous 
 campaign 
 upon which people certainly did form a very negative opinion. 
  
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