

Because the people who organised it didn’t like the new financial laws being implemented by the EU. Billions of pounds worth of dodgy money is laundered through the UK every year. I can’t recall the exact details but the EU were implementing laws that made money transfer more transparent. So this would have meant that all this dirty money would be traceable, and Tories didn’t want this being exposed because it was their mates and families all in it up to their ears.
Meeting everyone’s basic needs isn’t even far left. This is how far the Overton window has shifted to the right. Meeting everyone’s basic needs is left-of-centre. Far left would be state owned and controlled everything, redistribution of wealth via any means necessary, all public services fully state funded and free for all at the point of use.