‘We don’t exist to them, do we?’: Why working-class people voted for Brexit

Working-class people were more likely to vote for Brexit. However, Lisa Mckenzie takes issue with the notion that these people were simply ‘turkeys voting for Christmas’. They saw Brexit, with all the uncertainties it would bring, as an alternative to the status quo. Deindustrialisation and austerity have taken a heavy toll on working-class communities – one which the middle-class often fails to grasp.

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Chatham House: Expert Comment, 30.08.17: Labour Faces the Need to Reconcile With Working Class Brexit Supporters http://www.europeansources.info/record/labour-faces-the-need-to-reconcile-with-working-class-brexit-supporters/

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

LSE: British Politics and Policy: Blog, 13.10.17: Brexit was not the voice of the working class nor of the uneducated – it was of the squeezed middle http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/brexit-and-the-squeezed-middle/

LSE: Brexit: Blog, 10.11.17: Why are the white working classes still being held responsible for Brexit and Trump? http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/11/10/why-are-the-white-working-classes-still-being-held-responsible-for-brexit-and-trump/

The Independent, 26.10.17: I spent a year researching why working-class Welsh people in the Valleys voted for Brexit, and this is what I found http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/south-wales-valleys-brexit-vote-leave-a8021051.html

Ipsos MORI: News and Polls: News, 05.09.16: How Britain voted in the 2016 EU referendum https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/how-britain-voted-2016-eu-referendum

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