Here are some stats from 13,000 respondents taken after the Brexit vote by a professional polling organization associated with and funded by a Brexit leader and primary funder. So if there is any bias its in favor of the Brexiteers.
Its not pretty reading.
2/3rds of those on a state pension wanted to leave
2/3rds of Asians wanted to stay
70% of Muslims wanted to stay
58% of Christians (overwhelmingly Protestants) wanted to commune with Brexit
58% of Conservatives voted Brexit
For those who wanted to leave immigration was the second most important issue after sovereignty.
Those who wanted Brexit overwhelmingly wanted Boris as the next PM in the immediate follow up to the Brexit vote.
By a very large majority those who voted Brexit saw themselves as English not British
Brexiteers were much more pessimistic about the future. Whether this was because they would deterine it or because of other factors beyond their control isn't clear.
Here it gets very interesting with very wide differences on social issues and modernity in general:
The next is an unpleasant surprise.
Overwhelmingly Brexiteers thought the following were ills:
Multiculturalism
Social liberalism
Feminism
Globalization
The internet
Immigration
The Green Movement
So its not just about sovereignty, the Brexiteers differ profoundly from the other side on fundamental values about how we live our lives and how we see ourselves.
Is there anything they like about the modern world? Has anything good happened? They don’t even much like Great Britain or being British. Maybe they want to go back to before the Act of Union with Scotland to a purer England although that would give them dreadful and Catholic (and Scot) Queen Anne. Maybe earlier. The Tudors – although they were Welsh. What about the French Plantagenets? Maybe a pure England only exists before the French invasion? Maybe it never existed.
If the Brexiteers have little Unionist sentiment does this mean the crown, as symbol of the Union, has failed them? Does their own lack of support for the Union translate into support for Scot independence or would that be too logical?
They think their lives are awful and going to get worse and pretty much all the social changes in the past two generations have been for ill. Not unexpectedly all their problems are someone else’s fault or caused by large dark forces. Starting to sound a bit like victimized Egypt.
If this is the will of the people can we expect a wind back on women or sanctions against the Internet in the future? It all gets a bid odd at this stage because men and women voted roughly equal for Brexit. This must mean there are a lot of self-loathing female Brexit voters out there regretting feminism – along with a lot of males.
http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2016/06/ho ... d-and-why/
Remember this poll was produced by the dodgy, big political donor, tax exile Brexiteer Lord Ashcroft who resigned his seat in the Lords, but not his peerage, rather than pay tax. Do I really need to go through that man’s CV – its little better than his fellow Brexit leaders. In this summary he expresses no concern about the social attitudes of his ‘supporters’.
Makes it easy to understand why Jews overwhelmingly wanted to stay. http://www.timesofisrael.com/brexit-pol ... ain-in-eu/. They would hardly feel welcome in the other ‘camp’. Other minorities like Catholics also look to have voted to remain for similar reasons. In Northern Island it was crushing. http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/just-1 ... -1-7630311 Sort of makes sense that vulnerable minorities, with good antennae, would feel uncomfortable with the values and intentions of the Brexiteers. They don’t look a tolerant and welcoming lot.
Another survey from a reputable organization has Brexit voters as strongly authoritarian (like Trump supporters) compared with less authoritarian Remain voters so lets look forward to a nasty future.
and some other worrying mental biases that apply to both sides. https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... ds-brexit/
These stats do not mean that all Brexiteers are backward looking and authoritarian just that such extreme groups are a deal more significant in the Brexit camp than in the Remain. I am not suggesting that all Brexit voters lack clear logic just that a disproportionate number do.
Wonder what the Brexiteers think of Jews, Catholics, abortion, the law courts, judges, gays, gypsies, the disabled, young people, wine, the disabled, European food, diversity, the death penalty, direct democracy, civil and human rights, universities, equal opportunity, village versus city life, Scots, the Welsh, Irish, Darwinism, Trump, le Pen, the United Nations, modern architecture and art, Muslims, dark people, the French, the Germans or even Egyptians. Guess we will find out.
With these Little Britain views in the ascendant the Prince of Wales could be in his element. In his new Lilliput he could be a giant.
That such views are similar to Trump and le Pen voters hardly needs saying. The hard right in Germany is not dissimilar on the resurgent nationalism. Emerging, but still small, hard right voters in rural and regional Australia are also similar.
Experience is not what happens to you;
