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So, your argument for ignoring a linear progression of art and culture through history and focusing only on what you perceive as having 'emerged' of it's own volition in the last 30 years is that it's created for and by 'elites' and that it comes at the expense of those children who could otherwise explore the newer art forms, performed on a more local scale than grand opera houses and theatres in London?
This is a horrendously reductive argument and I suspect you know that, suffice to say that there's plenty of common folk capable of appreciating Ovid, Brahms or Bruegel and that this love of classic art goes on to inspire much new cultural production taking advantage of new technologies and opportunities.
Creating an artificial distinction between modern and classic is just a really divisive and unhelpful way of lowering standards and making one cultural group somehow incompatible with the other. I really don't see how kids getting taught Shakespeare in school is some kind of elitist brainwashing; the real problem is giving those talented enough to create or perform an equal stab at it and that's more due to nepotism and economic access.
To bring it back to Brexit, you're basically spinning out the same tactic as Leave in blaming an unidentified elite for all of society's woes when the real problem is immediately political and identifiable: Chronic underinvestment and underfunding of all art forms, everywhere in the UK that only the already-wealthy are able to bypass.