Majority In Work Voted Remain. Working Classes Versus Smirking Classes?

"A majority of those working full-time or part-time voted to remain in the EU; most of those not working voted to leave. More than half of those retired on a private pension voted to leave, as did two thirds of those retired on a state pension."


The leave camp, despite being led by old Etonians and backed by the big press barons have affected to paint themselves as the heroic representatives of the ignored and despised working classes.  I think it was the Downton Abbey character gone amiss Daniel Hannan who came up with the phrase that the Brexit vote was the triumph of the working classes over the smirking classes.

Well full marks for cheek, but the reality is revealed in one of Lord Ashcroft's polling reports.  The majority of people in work voted leave.  It was the votes of pensioners and the unemployed that tipped the scales.  It would have been more accurate to have said that it was the victory of the shirking classes over the working classes.

The lessons for remain voters is not to be tempted to think, and certainly not to say, I told you so if there is any big Brexit job loss story.  The majority of the people losing their jobs won't be doing so as a result of their voting against the national interest.  The leave voters will still be happily at home watching Loose Women.

http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2016/06/how-the-united-kingdom-voted-and-why/