Estimated reading time: ten full minutes
Lisa Mckenzie
Estimated reading time: ten full minutes
Working-class everyone was almost certainly going to vote for Brexit. Lisa Mckenzie (Middlesex University) takes problem using the idea why these social people were вЂturkeys voting for Christmas’. They saw Brexit, with the uncertainties it could bring, as an option to the status quo. De-industrialisation and austerity has brought a heavy toll on working-class communities – one which the middle-class frequently does not grasp.
It’s 22 June 2016. I’m sat in a cafГ© within the East End of London with two regional ladies, вЂSally’ – who’s 23, has two small kids, and contains been in the council household waiting list for four years, along side over 19,000 other folks – and Anne, who is inside her sixties and calls herself a вЂproper Eastender’. Her kids and grandchildren had recently moved out from the area and into Essex due to the not enough a home that is affordable. It’s your day prior to the EU referendum, and we also are speaing frankly about all of the politics associated with time, including footballer David Beckham’s present intervention within the debate: he’s got recently announced their support for the stay campaign. The ladies aren’t delighted. The discussion goes:
вЂWhat has that **** Beckham got to state about any of it?’