'Globalisation' is a mechanism for allowing big business to hire cheaper foreign labour. You don't need 'globalisation' to allow a firm in country A to sell stuff to people in country B.
So you have a big population of people, poorer people adversely affected by 'globalisation' who feel that the current system isn't working for them. So they voted to not have the current system.
Cheaper foreign labour (so a US company with a factory in Mexico, or a British company with a factory in Turkey, a tech centre in Lithuania and a call centre in Indonesia) allows the companies to either a) sell stuff more cheaply or b) make more profits.
The poor man, who no longer has a job can no longer afford the thinks that the company makes, and frankly doesn't care about corporate profit. So he's going to vote to leave globalisation - and in our case the EU.
It would be interesting to see if there was a similar demographics comparison for the Scottish IndyRef voters, incidentally.
The thing with the referendum is that everybody who voted to leave was anti-EU and everyone who voted to remain was pro-EU. However, it is reasonable to assume that there would have been people who were anti-EU but who voted to remain. I doubt people voted to leave who were pro-EU. The leave vote contained people who had all sorts of motives for leaving - the poorer people above who saw the EU as their enemy, people like myself who would prefer an arms length relationship with Europe (e.g. EEA/EFTA) as we are against a single country called Europe, but all those four freedoms (yes, movement of workers too) are good. The UK has seen lots of devolution over the past 20 years, the EU is geared more towards centralisation, so there are polar opposite politics there.
And as for the opinion that "We should be in the EU to influence them", the UK has very little influence. Our 1 in 28 influence may as well be 0 in 27. The EU is unwilling to change, the shocks of Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy aren't changing the EU. The shock of Brexit isn't changing the EU. I don't even see the EU as doing anything to try and appease the French voters heading towards Marine Le Pen. Leave them all to it and let the EU crumble under its own weight.
So you have a big population of people, poorer people adversely affected by 'globalisation' who feel that the current system isn't working for them. So they voted to not have the current system.
Cheaper foreign labour (so a US company with a factory in Mexico, or a British company with a factory in Turkey, a tech centre in Lithuania and a call centre in Indonesia) allows the companies to either a) sell stuff more cheaply or b) make more profits.
The poor man, who no longer has a job can no longer afford the thinks that the company makes, and frankly doesn't care about corporate profit. So he's going to vote to leave globalisation - and in our case the EU.
It would be interesting to see if there was a similar demographics comparison for the Scottish IndyRef voters, incidentally.
The thing with the referendum is that everybody who voted to leave was anti-EU and everyone who voted to remain was pro-EU. However, it is reasonable to assume that there would have been people who were anti-EU but who voted to remain. I doubt people voted to leave who were pro-EU. The leave vote contained people who had all sorts of motives for leaving - the poorer people above who saw the EU as their enemy, people like myself who would prefer an arms length relationship with Europe (e.g. EEA/EFTA) as we are against a single country called Europe, but all those four freedoms (yes, movement of workers too) are good. The UK has seen lots of devolution over the past 20 years, the EU is geared more towards centralisation, so there are polar opposite politics there.
And as for the opinion that "We should be in the EU to influence them", the UK has very little influence. Our 1 in 28 influence may as well be 0 in 27. The EU is unwilling to change, the shocks of Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy aren't changing the EU. The shock of Brexit isn't changing the EU. I don't even see the EU as doing anything to try and appease the French voters heading towards Marine Le Pen. Leave them all to it and let the EU crumble under its own weight.
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