Thanks for the link, mamie. Good article and very interesting. I was pleased to see within it many of the arguments that also appeared in links to articles that I provided prior to the referendum vote. e.g:
"new work doesn’t do what the old work did: it doesn’t offer a sense of identity or community or self-worth
"The white working class is correct to feel abandoned: it has been.
"Making economic arguments to voters who feel oppressed by economics is risky: they’re quite likely to tell you to go fuck yourself. That in effect is what the electorate did to the almost comic cavalcade of sages and bigshots who took the trouble to explain that Brexit would be ruinous folly:
"Take back control: Whoever came up with that slogan had spent more time listening than talking. The Remain campaign failed to do that."
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I don't agree with Lanchester's claim that there was silence on the subject of the benefits of immigration. I heard the economic arguments in favour of it that Lanchester makes now before the referendum, and I agree with those arguments. I also empathised with the people voting Leave who wanted to register a protest against the non-beneficial to them (as they see it) economic status quo. What I hadn't realised is just how strong that was. The referendum result was as much a surprise to me as it was to anyone else.
I shall read it again sometime.
Have any of you got all electric cars? Pros and cons please.