An oldie from just after we got into this mess
Last night I watched Panorama documentary about people in the West Midlands who voted for Brexit. (Incidentally, I voted ‘shake it all about’ – where are my views represented?) Anyway, it was a really interesting watch. He interviewed a dozen or so people about why they voted for Out: they were all white and working-class and although not overtly racist there was a persistent perception that immigrants and refugees get houses and services ‘ahead of’ them. So far, so predictable. But there was a strain in their thinking which I hadn’t been aware of. A lot of Brexiteers seem to want to turn the clock back to some kind of golden age; and whereas for many this is a time when Britain was ‘great’ – 1966, perhaps, or when we had an empire – others (and these were the ones represented in the documentary) simply want a time when there…
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Sarada Gray 