{"id":63739,"date":"2016-07-02T08:32:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T13:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?p=63739"},"modified":"2016-07-02T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T13:32:11","slug":"the-poor-and-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2016\/07\/02\/the-poor-and-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poor and Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

One reads a piece like this<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from The Spectator\u00a0<\/em>and, assuming some general accuracy, one wonders if the liberal machine is listening to the poor:<\/p>\n

The most striking thing about Britain\u2019s break with the EU is this: it\u2019s the poor wot done it. Council-estate dwellers, Sun<\/em> readers, people who didn\u2019t get good GCSE results (which is primarily an indicator of class, not stupidity): they rose up, they tramped to the polling station, and they said no to the EU.<\/p>\n

It was like a second peasants\u2019 revolt, though no pitchforks this time. The statistics are extraordinary. The well-to-do voted Remain, the down-at-heel demanded to Leave. The Brexiteer\/Remainer divide splits almost perfectly, and beautifully, along class lines. Of local authorities that have a high number of manufacturing jobs, a whopping 86 per cent voted Leave. Of those bits of Britain with low manufacturing, only 42\u00a0per\u00a0cent did so. Of local authorities with average house prices of less than \u00a3282,000, 79 per cent voted Leave; where house prices are above that figure, just 28 per cent did so. Of the 240 local authorities that have low education levels \u2014 i.e. more than a quarter of adults do not have five A to Cs at GCSE \u2014 83 per cent voted Leave. Then there\u2019s pay, the basic gauge of one\u2019s place in the pecking order: 77 per cent of local authorities in which lots of people earn a low wage (of less than \u00a323,000) voted Leave, compared with only 35 per cent of areas with decent pay packets.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s this stark: if you do physical labour, live in a modest home and have never darkened the door of a university, you\u2019re far more likely to have said \u2018screw you\u2019 to the EU than the bloke in the leafier neighbouring borough who has a nicer existence. Of course there are discrepancies. The 16 local authorities in Scotland that have high manufacturing levels voted Remain rather than Leave. But for the most part, class was the deciding factor in the vote. This, for me, is the most breathtaking fact: of the 50 areas of Britain that have the highest number of people in social classes D and E \u2014 semi-skilled and unskilled workers and unemployed people \u2014 only three voted Remain. Three. That means 47 very poor areas, in unison, said no to the thing the establishment insisted they should say yes to.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s make no bones about this: Britain\u2019s poor and workless have risen up. And in doing so they didn\u2019t just give the EU and its British backers the bloodiest of bloody noses. They also brought crashing down the Blairite myth of a post-class, Third Way Blighty, where the old ideological divide between rich and poor did not exist, since we were all supposed to be \u2018stakeholders\u2019 in society. Post-referendum, we know society is still cut in two, not only by economics but by politics too. This isn\u2019t just about the haves and have-nots: it\u2019s a war of views. The wealthier sections of society like it when politics involves detached cosmopolitan institutions and the poorer people don\u2019t. The less well-off have just asserted their stake in society and the chattering classes \u2014 who peddled all the nonsense about a \u2018stakeholder society\u2019 in the first place \u2014 aren\u2019t happy about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then wonder if the analog to Britain\u2019s poor is what supports Trump?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One reads a piece like this\u00a0from The Spectator\u00a0and, assuming some general accuracy, one wonders if the liberal machine is listening to the poor: The most striking thing about Britain\u2019s break with the EU is this: it\u2019s the poor wot done it. 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