EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

You are reading a single comment by @d0cA and its replies. Click here to read the full conversation.

•

hugo7

In conclusion these polls indicate that somewhere between 34 and 58 per cent of farmers planned to vote for Brexit, with two polls after the referendum putting the figure that did vote to leave at around 53 per cent.

To put that into context:

55 per cent of men voted to leave;
56 per cent of the ‘rural’ vote was a vote to leave:
61 per cent of Conservative voters voted leave; and
the older you were the more likely you were to have voted to leave (60 per cent of those aged 50-64 and 64 per cent of those over 65).
Given that farmers are predominantly male, rural, Tory voting, and older than 50 (one third are over 65), they appear to have voted to leave in a smaller proportion than others in their demographic.

https://www.westcountryvoices.co.uk/challenging-the-myth-that-farmers-voted-for-brexit-and-therefore-deserve-whats-coming-to-them/

•

d0cA in reply to @hugo7

This seems a more relevant quote from that article:

But even if EVERY farmer in the UK had voted the same way in 2016 it wouldn’t have changed the result. There were around 130,000 farmers in the UK in 2016. The difference between Leave and Remain was 1,269,501 votes – 10 times the number of farmers in the UK!

•

hugo7 in reply to @d0cA

Yeah. I thought that was a good insight.

I guess my point was that people frame farmers as a homogeneous group who deserve to get fucked by Brexit because they all voted for it. Whereas, actually based on the patchy info we have they probably voted more or less in line with everyone else.

I mean, look I reflexively judge farmers as much as the next person. But when you look into it, it seems like it may be unfair and overly judgemental.

About

@d0cA started