Cornwall votes for Brexit then pleads to keep EU funding

[TubbersUK]

60. Wow

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You do understand that it's not going to be some ordinary bloke from down the road who re-shapes the future of our country and re-defines the pattern of our lives ? That it's not going to be me and my mates putting our heads together in the pub that decides how things are going to be managed from here on ?

It's going to be particularly rabid Conservatives like Boris Johnson (the best that Eton can spawn) and his cronies, fresh off the campaign trail, triumphant and fired up, and with the potential to change every aspect of national life, from workers’ rights to environmental protection. In short, the elite on steroids, the worst of the worst clutching their 'mandate' and ready to carve out their place among the legends and darlings of the RW.

You surely don't need a crystal ball to see how that's going to pan out for 'the people' ?

Here's a hint , as of this moment, I still have some workplace rights (despite the best efforts of successive Conservative and Blairite governments to wipe them out). I have them because they were either underpinned or conferred by EU standards. I don't expect to have most of them for very much longer.

It seems pretty clear to me to me that the 'elites' have lost no power as a result of Brexit, it's simply become more concentrated and has landed in the hands of a particularly noxious sub-set. Nor have 'the people' gained any power as a result of Brexit, we are in fact probably more exposed than ever.

ETA: and of course, the Cons can do their worst, perpetuate their beloved austerity, and pass it off as a necessary evil in the context of transitioning to an independent lion economy. I can see their crocodile tears now (shed as they protect & bolster their city cronies).