Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
Oh I know a lot of people voted for Brexit who by any standards were well educated professional people and one couldn't dismiss them as being ignorant. However, in every case when I asked the question as to why they voted for Brexit, being fed up with the status quo wasn't ever one of the reasons they gave. In point of fact every reason they gave was actually not factually true, the most common one though was actually more about preserving the status quo, or at least it seemed that it was thought Brexit would somehow take the country back to a golden age they fondly imagined in the 1950's and early 1960's, which was both not true and not possible.

I am fascinated by how the term liberal has become an insult. Again its this use of a convenient label to cover a range of people who are quite diverse but is used by people who are either lazy, ignorant or both!
I'll forgive you your last sentence into relapse and genuinely ask what the word is then. I genuinely don't know, or maybe there isn't one, and 'liberals' is probably wrong. Bigots feels a bit harsh because as you point out the target demographic is so wide. I'm neither lazy (if I was I wouldn't be doing revenue earning work at 00:13) nor ignorant but on this occasion the word escapes me.