Subject: Re: BOE raises rates again to 4%
> If you ask people why they voted Brexit, for **most** it was the chance to give two fingers to the elite.

This is a claim that requires evidence, which you have not provided.

Nor will you be be able to provide it, because it does not exist.

This 'interpretation' of the 'meaning' of the vote was promoted enthusiastically *after* the vote by right wing populists. [1]

I would say it seems nothing more than an attempt to spin populist gold out of straw.

Let's be real: the UK was covered with posters (and buses) claiming that Brexit would mean 'far more money to the health service' and 'less coloured people coming here'. Those sort of claims played a large role in many minds.

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

However, I could certainly accept that a substantial minority of leave voters ('many', not 'most') used this sort of feeling as *a* reason and a much smaller minority used it as *the* reason.

But only in the sense that some people really are simple enough to reason 'that posh boy PM plonker on the telly is saying I should do X, so eff him, I will do Y'.

There is also the problem of determining why people voted 'before' vs 'after' the vote. I know a lot of Leave voters who spent time coming up with reasons post-hoc why they had voted as they did, which they somehow had never spoken of at any point prior to the vote. (Lately, several of these people that I know in real life, insist loudly at any available opportunity, that they voted Remain.)


> But it was a necessary pre-condition for any positive change

It was not, in any way, a necessary precondition for positive change.

If what you claim were true, the UK would have been incapable of positive change prior to joining the EU and all EU countries would currently be incapable of positive change.

That is an absurdity.

I'm sorry, but somewhere along the line, you have been tricked into believing something ridiculous.

Not an uncommon situation in modern British politics.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

(note - this is one section among many!)

Anti-establishment populism

"The idea of voting in favour of Brexit was seen by many as a way to protest against the Establishment and the elite who were seen to have ignored "the will of the people" for too long. The result of the referendum was branded as such by Nigel Farage, who claimed it to be a victory against "big merchant banks" and "big politics"."