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What will happen to the UK if the Conservatives win a majority Government?

It will be Thatcherism on steroids just without the economic boom.

A Conservative majority government would mean a Conservative-run hard Brexit, which would run massively against the interests of working-class people in the country. A referendum vote built on the promise of £350 million a day extra for the National Health Service would likely lead to the exact opposite and leave open the possibility of trade deals including opening up parts of the NHS to American pharmaceutical companies.

Here is Trump refusing to rule it out:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_497Hp_nGz8]

Here is Nigel Farage (Mr Brexit), caught advocating an 'insurance-based' healthcare model:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUx0slUceNY]

Here is an article about 'Britania Unchained,' which is an ideological manifesto advocating further privatization of British service, slashing worker protections and further de-regulating businesses (including banks) and further tax cuts for the rich. Four of the five authors are current cabinet ministers and Boris wrote the foreword:

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/07/britannia-unchained-free-market-book-defines-boris-johnson-s-new-cabinet

Here is leaked Whitehall document which shows that the government already have plans for a 'Singapore-style' free-market tax haven for Britain:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/leaked-brexit-documents-reveal-tories-20732520

These are the ideological forces at work behind the Tory Brexit. These are not people who care about the working class of this country but are right-wing free-market ideologues who want to tilt the balance of power in this country even more onto the side of big business.

Now, if you want to make an argument for a Thatcherism on steroids version of Britain and the break-up of this country's already strained public sector, then I can argue that with you. However, this point is not being argued by the Conservatives and is in fact being semi-hidden because it would (rightly) be massively unpopular with the UK public. Neither Brexit voters nor remain voters want that to happen.

However, if the Conservatives win this election, then there will be little holding them back. They don't want to be free of the EU because of sovereignty but because they want to free of EU rules preventing them from doing what I described above. The migration issue always was a trojan horse for Ayn Randian economic libertarianism.
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Adaydreambeliever · 56-60, F
Apologies, I didn't read all of that but just to say.. it is believed, considered, that a good many working class people voted Brexit.. and, we have to remember that it's half, more or less, of the conservatives who are fighting against a hard Brexit..

Boris is an idiot, a pleb, who is unlikely to win even a game of tiddly-winks.. he's no Thatcher! And I know this cos I lived through Thatcherism!
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Adaydreambeliever I realise its a lot to read. I did that because I wanted to provide evidence.

There aren't really Conservatives fighting Brexit anymore because the Brexiteers have completely won that battle within the party. The main people fighting it are leaving or have left.

A lot of working-class people voted for Brexit and I know plenty myself. I just think people have been conned.

I did vote remain though I'm not a hard remainer. It might be maybe possible to have a different kind of Brexit. What I'm doing here is highlighting what the people in charge of the process believe.
Adaydreambeliever · 56-60, F
@Burnley123 I wasn't complaining about the length.. I believe people need and should have opportunity to read more than just a one liner on here.. It's only that I am tired and, like many, bored to death of Brexit! And it offends me to even see that man, Boris's name in print!
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Adaydreambeliever No it's fair enough. Even I'm sick of Brexit but the 'let's get Brexit done' idea is a lie. All that has been negotiated is the withdrawal agreement. Other details will take years to resolve. One way or another, this will go on for many years and I don't like it either.