> Present and former industrial workers basically all voted leave, while knowledge workers and finance voted remain.
Do you have a source for that claim?
According to The Australian:
"Leave was backed by almost two-thirds of those considered “working class and non-workers”, meaning skilled manual workers through to those with lower grade jobs, pensioners or welfare dependants."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/brexit-who-vot...
'shipping cheap workers in'.. and from where did these workers come? The EU perhaps?
Present and former industrial workers basically all voted leave, while knowledge workers and finance voted remain.
What is telling is how the former class' way of life was ravaged first by thatcher's union busting, and then by management (under pressure from finance) either moving production abroad, or shipping cheap workers in.
Knowledge workers, particularly the kind that is frequenting this very site, have a much easier time moving around as the needs or desires require. Especially as the market segment prefer younger employees, unlikely to be "burdened" by family and such.