What's irksome about media/political focus on "Labour's working class Northern Brexit voters"? Besides fact a) core Leave vote = middle class Southern Tories & b) core Labour vote = Remain regardless of class/location? I'll just observe:
There's so often an implicit assumption / insinuation that "working class" means angry, bigoted. Suggestions of lower intelligence, inability to understand difficult issues. It's so patronising, insulting and totally untrue...
Working class means economically vulnerable and hampered by inequality at every turn by nothing more than the accident of birth. The constant insecurity; the lower life expectancy; the great scientists or musicians who never were. Not intelligence or enlightenment...
On the contrary: compassion and solidarity - I remember as a kid, in Belfast, us packing food and clothes for the striking miners in Northern England. We had no idea who they were. We just knew they were the same as us and they were in trouble...
So next time you hear a MediaType or a Bourgeois Brexiter or a Champagne Socialist offer their sweeping views about the "angry working class Northern Leave voters" - maybe time to call out their misleading and offensive stereotype?
