Posted by Sinister Burt on September 27, 2019, 10:31 am, in reply to "Re: PCR: Brexit Spiked"
I think the establishment shouldn't be treated so much as a monolith with one view - i'd agree that the larger proportion of 'them' then and now seem more remainy (the big banks etc), like they were with hillary, but this doesn't diminish the fairly sizeable chunk of them who are fully up for/the dominant force behind brexit - even when you're a small bit of the elite, that still makes you very powerful. This relative underdog position within the elite allows these creeps to play the anti-establishment card, even though both sides would favour each other over the lower classes in a heartbeat. As i heard someone say, you can't be an underdog when you're standing on a pile of dead dogs.
As to whether the interests of us down here intersect with those of either of these groups, it would only be accidental if they did. I'd say both sides are pretty much united in being against even mild socialism or any sort of direct advantage for us, aside from the feeling of a winning a narrow kabuki theatre referendum which on its own would have little bearing on how our economic system is tipped against us down at the bottom (neoliberal brexit is no better than neoliberal remain).