Ian Dunt
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And at the time, UKIP, which is the predecessor party of the Brexit Party, which is the predecessor party of reform.
These parties change name, but they're always Nigel Farage's party.
That is what they are.
Was posing a threat to the Conservative Party on its right flank, on immigration, on Europe and all the things that he loved talking about at the time.
And so David Cameron facing local elections, which no one can even remember anymore.
tried to cover his right flank by saying, you know what, fine, I'll offer โ I'll promise a referendum on Europe.
And that's the promise that he made.
He probably gave it about 45 minutes, thought he was extreme โ
absolutely no sense he'd be affected by the consequences of any of the decisions that he made.
He went to Eton, I think, didn't he?
Exactly.
The difference between private and public in the UK is essentially a cultural distinction.
Private schools are schools that you pay for, but they look very much like a normal school.
Public schools are their own kind of internal, cultural, intellectual and emotionally abusive ecosystem.
So, for instance, Eton will have its own games, like its own sports.
I mean, just kind of, but it doesn't really play the sports that other people play.
It doesn't really play rugby and football and cricket and all of that.
It plays the sports that it has itself invented.
It will have its own words, its own lingo, its own slang, and its own very specific ways of brutalising the next generation of British wealthy children.
Yes.