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Forget the bus.

Forget the false promises. And forget the dodgy statistics.

The biggest achievement of the Leave campaign was to convince Labour voters to back a right-wing coup.

To understand why Brexit is a coup we need to go back in time.

To be precise, we need to go back 31 years to a speech given at the Trade Union congress in Bournemouth by the President of the EU Commission Jacques Delors.

At the time Delors was entering the lions’ den.

The trade unions were at best sceptical if not outright hostile to the European project which they regarded as a capitalists’ club.

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Delors, a French socialist, came to sell a different version of the European Community.

He told Congress the internal market would be designed to benefit “each and every citizen.”

“It is therefore necessary to improve workers’ living and working conditions, and to provide better protection for their health and safety at work,” he said.

His 15-minute speech was to cause a pivotal change in British politics and paved the ground for the 2016 referendum.

The left embraced the European cause which would go on to guarantee paid holidays, equal rights for temporary workers and a host of other workers’ rights and the Tory right began their long journey from being the champions of the European project to its most bitter opponents.

Two weeks after Delors spoke, Margaret Thatcher delivered her Bruges speech in which she denounced this “socialist” vision for the EU.

She lit the fuse for the long campaign by the Tory right to get Britain out of Europe.

For them, as long as we were members, the UK was chained to rules and regulations that prevented us from becoming a low-tax, low regulation state.

This was the driving force behind Brexit.

They wrapped it up in a message of patriotism, taking back control and independence.

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But at its heart this was always a right-wing project aimed at detaching the UK from the EU and embracing the full-throttle capitalism of the US.

And now, under Boris Johnson, they are on the brink of achieving their goal.

The country is run by politicians and advisers who have called for the NHS to be privatised, for the BBC licence fee to be abolished, for red tape (ie workers’ rights) to be scrapped and taxes cut to their lowest level possible.

They can only do this as a result of Brexit.

Anyone who voted leave should ask themselves this: did you really think that Jacob Rees-Mogg, Iain Duncan-Smith and Boris Johnson were doing this in your interest?