I am amazed - really quite amazed - at some of the Brexit opinions I am reading here on DU

[LeftishBrit]

49. Thank you!!!

This was, more than anything, about political rivalries on the Right, with the far right using Brexit as a club to fight the centre right.

The main leaders of Brexit are Nigel Farage, a public-school educated ex-stockbroker who thinks the Tories aren't right-wing enough; Boris Johnson, a Tory MP from a very upper-class background (went to Eton), who is currying favour with right-wingers who might make him Prime Minister; and a bunch of RW Tory MPs. All, of course, egged on by Rupert Murdoch and most of the press barons. The Brexit campaign was not about TPP or whether the Greeks had been badly treated; it was about blaming bloody foreigners for everything. 'Hop Off You Frogs' as the Sun once said. And still worse, all those bloody immigrants! Not to say that every Leave voter cast their vote for these reasons, but the Leave campaign at the top was based on xenophobia.