The Guardian reports that Chris Patten, the former Conservative party chairman is the latest Tory grandee to come out in support of a second Brexit referendum, or People’s vote.
What struck me, though, was this:
The whole sorry shambles began with a decision to call a referendum in order to try to manage the English nationalist right wing of the Conservative party.
I have said it before, but the main problem with the Conservative Party is that most of its members — and a significant proportion of its MPs — are not conservatives. The One-Nation Tories and pragmatists have been largely sidelined by a post-1980s crop of rabid libertarians and English nationalists.
And it’s because the Tories have discovered ideology that Britain is in the mess it is today.
Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill 