Once again the ruling class are out in force trying to undo the Leave vote. 17.4 million workers and middle class voters declared their wish to leave the capitalist club that is the EU. And ever since that decision was reached there has been a concerted campaign to overthrow their vote.
Voters were too stupid to understand the issues. Only Remain voters were intelligent enough to grasp the issues.
Voters were too gullible and swallowed all the lies and propaganda peddled by the Leave campaign. Only Remain voters were wise enough to believe only the lies peddled by the Remain campaign.
Voters were too dumb to comprehend the dire consequences of even VOTING to leave the EU, never mind the results of actually leaving. Only Remain voters had the courage to swallow the politically motivated cataclysmic predictions of made by the IMF, Treasury, Bank of England and that famously impartial George Osborne.
As the negotiations work towards a final position Old Tories like John Major are now dragged out of the dustbin of history onto the Andrew Marr Show to tell us about the ‘catastrophe’ that awaits us. Meanwhile Amazon lectures the government Brexit minister on the risk of ‘civil unrest’ if a deal with the EU is not reached.
And Michel Barnier is smiling like a Cheshire cat. No need for him to play the bad guy. He already has Dominic Grieve making the EU’s case for them. This so-called nationalist, whose patriotism nobody has called into question, sides with the big business interests who benefit from the single market and the customs union. In an interview yesterday he warned Brexit would be “absolutely catastrophic”.
“We will be in a state of emergency – basic services we take for granted might not be available,” he said.
Barnier stands quietly by with his smug smile. While he watches the UK government trying to negotiate without being able to walk away from the table, he knows he only has to stand still and do nothing. Concede nothing. Agree to nothing. And watch while the UK talks itself into a deal so similar to membership of the EU that working class voters will have trouble telling the difference.
The real danger, so feared by the ruling class, is that failure to deliver what the working class voted for in the EU referendum could lead to even greater disillusion with the two-party political system they have relied on to control and subvert the wishes of the vast majority of the population.
And when the working class moves away from the Labour Party and it’s pro-capitalist economic framework, the possibility of civil unrest really starts to keep the ruling class awake at night.