This myth of Brexit predominantly being a working class movement needs countering. Just look at the people advocating it in parliament - hardly the salt of the earth are they?The primary determinant of how you voted is not how much you earned but how old you are. The link between age and tendency to vote for leave is uncanny i.e. if you are 70 you are 70% likely to be a leaver.The second determinant is urban vs rural. Most of the major cities in this country including Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast and Bristol were pro-Remain. Rural areas on the other hand tended to be Leave voting.The evidence is that working class people, if you define it in the strictest terms as people who work in less well paid jobs, voted by some margin for remaining. People who are of working age but not currently employed voted mainly to leave. This makes sense if you think about it because Brexit makes just about everybody who has a job less secure in their employment.The overwhelming proportion of Labour voters in leave supporting areas support Remain - I know there is not the close relationship between being working class and being a Labour voter that there used to be but it is still the case that the party will have the highest level support from working class people than any other.The impression that Dennis has that just posh lefties support Remain and working class people support leave is probably down to the BBC who insist on wheeling out some well meaning person to carefully and slightly patronisingly explain the case for Remain and then some angry gammon to rant on about how we should leave with no deal. Neither of these people are representative of the country as a whole.
Mark Evans ● 2587d