Russian War Crimes (Part 1)

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@peterroberts

We were obviously talking about different things ; you were referencing his manifesto pledge , I was talking about the announcement.

Regardless , you still maintain that pledge won the 2015 election for Cameron , and I would still beg to differ. Cameron made that pledge to see off a challenge from the Tory right. The election he subsequently won had more to do with Labour parachuting in an uncharismatic , and frankly unelectable, leftist leader in Ed Milliband and the collapse of the Lib Dems after the ignominy of being in coalition with the Tories , than it ever did with a more general desire to cut ties with Europe.

Yeah, because the largest turnout in UK political history with 17.5m people voting to leave the EU the very next year doesn’t suggest it would have been a factor…

It was that pledge that was, as you put it

@peterroberts

To guarantee Cameron’s survival amongst the Tory right maybe

That came ahead of the 2015 GE. The 2017 GE took place AFTER the EU referendum had already happened.