Posted on 06/16/2016 11:27:03 AM PDT by Lorianne
Working-class people’s voices are rarely heard outside their communities, and almost never within the political or media sphere. However the EU referendum debate has opened up a Pandora’s box of working-class anger and frustration. It is clear that the Westminster politicos are quite unnerved by this. Even I am surprised by how the referendum has captured the attention and the imagination of the same people that only last year told me they had no interest in the general election “because ‘they’ are all the same”.
In working-class communities, the EU referendum has become a referendum on almost everything. In east London it is about housing, schools and low wages. The women worry for their children and their elderly parents – what happens to them if the rent goes up again? The lack of affordable housing is terrifying.
The mining communities are also worried about the lack of secure and paid employment, the loss of the pubs and the grinding poverty that has returned to the north. The talk about immigration is not as prevalent or as high on the list of fears as sections of the media would have us believe.
From my research I would argue that the referendum debate within working-class communities is not about immigration, despite the rhetoric. It is about precarity and fear. As a group of east London women told me: “I’m sick of being called a racist because I worry about my own mum and my own child,” and “I don’t begrudge anyone a roof who needs it but we can’t manage either.”
Over the past 30 years there has been a sustained attack on working-class people, their identities, their work and their culture by Westminster politics and the media bubble around it.
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After that assignation, Brexit is dead.
Yep. And they’ve activated their Oswald/Hinckley/Sir Han Sir Han. Wonder when our elite will active ours?
Yes. Plus, she was a militant advocate of unrestricted Syrian refugee immigration. It’s over for England. I can’t believe I was so shallow as to think that we had a chance against the globalists.
F'd here too. That's why we saw the unabated rise of Trump with none of the other 17 taking up this cause for which they lost.
Trumpism going global!
When I was in England back in the late 80’s even then the young folks I talked to at the Taverns all spoke of how they basically lived in a caste system. Where ever you were born in life that is where you stayed. I just can’t imagine how it is now with all the immigrants and generational welfare I read about there now. No wonder they are drunk in the streets with no shame.
Yesterday I was thing the Leftist Remainers would create an incident against the “leave” people, and like magic a Remain MP is killed. I must be Psychic.
First MP murdered since 1812, and that was the Prime Minister, shot with a flintlock.
An amazing coincidence. Just as the UK was going to vote itself out of the EU. Referendum suspended.
Just Wow... Who knew they could suspend an referendum because a politician was murdered?
Sounds like they took advantage of a news event to stop the referendum they were losing.
From the Guardian??
The campaigns on both sides were suspended not the referendum.
I may be mistaken, but I think there were a string of Brit MP’s murdered during the IRA “troubles” 70’s.
The story I read said some were attacked.
It did not mention any murdered.
Thank you for the clarification. Much appreciated.
They might be lucky. Here without a job you just sink lower.
I think they meant WITH a job; I had heard that about Scotland years ago, but not England itself. The reason for it was simple; shoemakers taught their sons to be shoemakers, farmers taught their sons to be farmers, blacksmiths taught their sons to be blacksmiths, etc.
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