It would appear we _do_ have different ideas about who the ruling classes are, I think it’s those who are actually pulling the strings.
Your “get a job at McDonalds” bit reads like the same racist arguments against immigration that are largely parroted by many leave voters, a thinly veiled “foreigners are taking our jobs” - the reality is that immigration is a net benefit to the economy and this country is going to struggle without it. The NHS is already hitting problems, our universities, who rely on foreign students paying much more in fees, are seeing a potentially catastrophic decline in enrolments (anecdata).
I totally understand the other side of the argument, the problem is that it’s based on lies they’ve been fed by those who stand to profit. The groundswell of anger that brought about the leave vote was orchestrated by exactly those who I’m calling the ruling classes - they gave the disenfranchised someone to punch down at.
Your “get a job at McDonalds” bit reads like the same racist arguments against immigration that are largely parroted by many leave voters, a thinly veiled “foreigners are taking our jobs” - the reality is that immigration is a net benefit to the economy and this country is going to struggle without it. The NHS is already hitting problems, our universities, who rely on foreign students paying much more in fees, are seeing a potentially catastrophic decline in enrolments (anecdata). I totally understand the other side of the argument, the problem is that it’s based on lies they’ve been fed by those who stand to profit. The groundswell of anger that brought about the leave vote was orchestrated by exactly those who I’m calling the ruling classes - they gave the disenfranchised someone to punch down at.