Thread by @Helenreflects

I've been struck by this article on how lack of EU carers forcing women to care for elderly people after #Brexit is a feature, not a bug of Brexit.
Brexit is the project on putting people in their place. 1/

newstatesman.com/politics/femin…

First and foremost, Brexit is the project of putting EU citizens who come here in their place.
How dare you come here taking jobs without having to jump through our visa hoops?
How dare you come here on equal terms with British workers? 2/

Post-Brexit, the idea is to put EU citizens in their place by stopping free movement. Free movement bothers Brexiters because it means foreigners come on an equal footing, as I've argued here 3/
theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/he…

Controlled immigration suits Brexiters because it puts the immigrant in a position decidedly below that of the UK citizen, a position of dependency and possible rejection. Next... women 4/

How dare they take jobs outside the home, including "boy jobs" (yes, there are apparently boy jobs and girl jobs!)
Back to the kitchen, back to care for your dependents! 5/

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Ironically, of course people who are full-time carers struggle to get by. And EU citizens who have been full-time carers, e.g. to their disabled British partner or children, are still unsure about whether they'll be able to stay. Still... 6/

Brexit will force UK citizens, mostly women, to stay home and care for elderly parents. A feature, not a bug. At least they will know their place, and that place is in the home. Next, metropolitan elites... 7/
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…

Ah those metropolitan elites. Make no mistake, it's not about having a lot of money. Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg are not elites. Neither is Farage, apparently he's just barely scraping by on his MEP salary and other assets. 8/

No metropolitan elites (aka citizens of nowhere) are people who dare to be educated, to like European culture, to speak some other language than English to a reasonable standard.
How dare they!
Isn't toast and beans good enough for them?
Let's put them in their place 9/

Let's call them remoaners and told them you lost get over it, and pursue the most extreme Brexit, which robs them of their freedom of movement and other EU rights.
No matter it will also hurt people who don't like Europe and who are staunchly monolingual. Next...students 10/

How dare they, studying such things like philosophy, or politics, or Japanese?
How dare they try to broaden their minds and - gasp - use the Erasmus programme to go abroad.
And how dare children of disadvantaged children go to uni? They should learn something useful instead! 11/

No they should pick fruit. After all EU citizens won't do it. It'll be a rite of passage! It'll teach those elites Real Life (aka the University of Life).
Next... people in deprived areas 12/
farminguk.com/News/British-s…

Now you might say, hey wait a minute aren't people in deprived areas the same people who voted FOR Brexit in large numbers? And shouldn't we go through with it no matter what otherwise it will be a betrayal of their vote.
You see, that's the beauty of Brexit. 13/

Brexit will have most devastating effects in areas already struggling to get by. People increasingly unhappy with austerity who voted for UKIP and now also Brexit. They don't want austerity. They don't want children's centres closed, infrastructure falling apart 14/

But of course our current leadership wants to press on with austerity. Make no mistake, it's a full-on war on the poor. Destroying them by a thousand cuts, dismantling their libraries, schools, NHS. And to put austerity on steroids with Brexit and then say "you voted for it". 15/

How dare you, poor people, question us putting you in your place?
You don't deserve healthcare, that's only for the rich! The NHS was a horrible mistake and we need to stop it.
You don't deserve quality schools, that's only for people who can afford private schools! 16/

So what do we do, we direct all your anger to foreigners (always a convenient target) and to the EU, which you don't know much about anyway.
And that's how Brexiters will be able to put anyone in their place.
Anyone who is not rich, male, UK-born.
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