Thanks for giving a great explanation of what happened in the UK during this period. As an American, I was always shocked that they screwed up Brexit so bad but then I see the voters are falling for the same fascist crap that they do here in this country. This is from a Vox article an interview with Jason Stanley a fascist expert but it rings true in the UK and in the USA.

"Jason Stanley - I think that’s right. Part of what fascist politics does is get people to disassociate from reality. You get them to sign on to this fantasy version of reality, usually a nationalist narrative about the decline of the country and the need for a strong leader to return it to greatness, and from then on their anchor isn’t the world around them — it’s the leader."

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/19/17847110/how-fascism-works-donald-trump-jason-stanley