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That's what the (South African) guy at work can't get his head around.
I think the point is that people in poverty who used to vote Labour now vote Tory because they've conflated Labour with mass immigration and the free movement of labour within the EU. They've bought the dummy that Farage et al sold to them.
There's also an instinctive distrust of the EU amongst us Brits; our 'islander' mentality.
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Re: Pilger
I can see his point, but aren't those in "extreme poverty" who also voted UKIP and Tories?
Are those in extreme poverty followed and understood the politics of EU in same way they did with the Tories? So, they first put in power the main reason of their and our disgrace, and now we should worry about them, now that they made a second mess for them and for us again.
To me that article is just old school well gone western Communism.