I'm reading Robert Peston's book WTF at the moment. He makes a strong argument that while we remainers spend a lot of time railing against the retired home-owning euro-sceptic gammons, we shouldn't bother, a) because they'll never change their mind, and b) because loud as they are, they didn't win Brexit on their own. He makes the point that Brexit would never have reached 52% were it not for the gammons forming an unlikely voting bloc with those at the bottom of society, i.e.
people on zero-hours contracts
people whose regular jobs have been automated
people made to move out of their homes because of the bedroom tax
people otherwise affected by austerity
people for whom their areas have become unrecognisable too quickly (I'm from Dagenham, I've seen this first hand)
broadly speaking, people who were angry, didn't think things could get any worse, and wanted to give Cameron and Osborne, those posh twats, a poke in the eye
While I don't give a monkeys about offending gammons, I do worry that if we manage to reverse Brexit without addressing the concerns of this latter group of people, we'll just end up with the same anger coming out in other ways.
I'm reading Robert Peston's book WTF at the moment. He makes a strong argument that while we remainers spend a lot of time railing against the retired home-owning euro-sceptic gammons, we shouldn't bother, a) because they'll never change their mind, and b) because loud as they are, they didn't win Brexit on their own. He makes the point that Brexit would never have reached 52% were it not for the gammons forming an unlikely voting bloc with those at the bottom of society, i.e.
While I don't give a monkeys about offending gammons, I do worry that if we manage to reverse Brexit without addressing the concerns of this latter group of people, we'll just end up with the same anger coming out in other ways.