BobDavis
Gimme All Your Lovin’
When the brexit ref was announced just about everybody I knew where enthusiastic about voting to leave. Many could not even give a reason. The EU & Europe was so far removed from their lives in the town they live in they just could not see the point of membership. Nothing in the campaign convinced them or needed to. Their minds were made up already. Many of them rarely voted in elections because they could not see the point but they voted leave in the ref because they saw the point of leaving something they saw no point of being a member of.
Their minds have not changed since nor will they. They always saw the EU & some of it’s members as the enemy & anything that has happened since has not changed their minds on that nor will it. I am not so sure that what is written in the popular right wing press forms their opinions more so I think it just reflects their already long held opinions.
Generally they are racist. They see the white people around them as the people that belong here & those with brown or black skin even UK born merely as guests in this country who will never belong.
This is why I think working class people make the seemingly irrational decision to vote Tory. While any critical thinker would argue that the Tories do not represent the interests of the working class I think plenty of white W/c people would say the current far right government masquerading as traditional tories represent their interests exactly.
Throughout my working life of truck driving since the 1970s I was surrounded by some of the most horribly racist extremist right wing white working class men that it was my misfortune to know & I know that those in my town now. That is polite urbane people some working some retired hold horribly racist world views. Just ordinary white working class folk living in provincial towns. Vile racists most of them. The current Tory party is perfect for them & they deserve each other.
Their minds have not changed since nor will they. They always saw the EU & some of it’s members as the enemy & anything that has happened since has not changed their minds on that nor will it. I am not so sure that what is written in the popular right wing press forms their opinions more so I think it just reflects their already long held opinions.
Generally they are racist. They see the white people around them as the people that belong here & those with brown or black skin even UK born merely as guests in this country who will never belong.
This is why I think working class people make the seemingly irrational decision to vote Tory. While any critical thinker would argue that the Tories do not represent the interests of the working class I think plenty of white W/c people would say the current far right government masquerading as traditional tories represent their interests exactly.
Throughout my working life of truck driving since the 1970s I was surrounded by some of the most horribly racist extremist right wing white working class men that it was my misfortune to know & I know that those in my town now. That is polite urbane people some working some retired hold horribly racist world views. Just ordinary white working class folk living in provincial towns. Vile racists most of them. The current Tory party is perfect for them & they deserve each other.
