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The narrative the main reason people voted for Brexit is because they feel “left behind” is just so patronising and cliché. I know lots of people who voted leave and they don’t feel left behind at all. A third of graduates voted leave. For many it was just about sovereignty.
It’s just the brexit voters we hear from constantly are in the most depressed places. Dismiss the more reasoned arguments about sovereignty etc by all means but it’s such a mistake and mischaracterisation to just blithely dismiss it as a group of “left behind” angry people.
Arguing that Leavers being "left behind" as the causal factor of Brexit is a comforting narrative for those who advocate it- because it sits with their own politics and view of the world better (esp. on left).
The truth, that many of these people are more complex, simply view the world differently to them, have different priorities (and that the EU had singularly failed to sell itself as a political project) is more uncomfortable.
