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While it is totally wrong to attribute xenophobia to most Brexit voters and concerns about excessive migration are wholly legitimate, the Brexit process actually going forward is indeed increasingly xenophobic and hostile to foreigners.
there are here parallels to the 1930’s that should warn postliberals and populists: fascists and national socialists were not so obviously evil from the outset: they often articulated corporatist and personalist causes that made sense. But they became cults of power and race.
Thus as for mutualist socialists and Christian personalists then, so for postliberals (BL etc) now: as much as we dislike liberalism and see it as dialectical source of fascism, and dislike statist socialism, authoritarian rightist populism may be emerging as the worse danger.
It is in this context that I would appeal to fellow Blue Labourites: however other and partially valid your own pro-Brexit motives, from start to the impending terrible end, Brexit has been mainly instigated and led by forces that represent indeed a kind of mutated fascism.
In this context the fact that to be sure most Brexit voters were not voting for mutated fascism is irrelevant. Relevant rather is the way they are now being beguiled by dishonest rhetoric to support the undermining of representational democracy.
