Quote Originally Posted by John2 View Post
It will be interesting to see what happens when these people realise that their protest vote has actually accelerated the decline in their living conditions rather than reversed it.

I hope they realise that living standards fall whole the country sees growth because that growth is disproportionately working its way to the top. I don't hold my breath though. I fear what the next bogeyman the right-wing media will invent will be.
They were probably damned if they did or damned if didn't vote for Brexit. We're talking about people who aren't political animals, at the bottom of the pile, without a voice and already hammered by "austerity" for 6 years....never mind the previous 30 after Thatcher. Their lives wouldn't have improved noticably if we'd stayed in. It's the middle classes that's making all the noise now. Nobody gives a sh;t about disenfranchised who still don't have a voice, nothing's changed in that respect. Unfortunately, they're not likely to feel that their vote can make a difference. Corbyn lit that fire briefly, but that was soon stamped out.

It's easy for the likes of you and me to pontificate and argue the toss over stuff like this, we don't have to worry where the next meal is coming from.