The pro-EU class, as you put it, should be understood as the class of people who contribute to society, who make it tick, the people who might have half a clue

The pro-EU class, as you put it, should be understood as the class of people who contribute to society, who make it tick, the people who might have half a clue about what is actually going on. For the last 500 years the UK has had one overriding foreign policy objective - to prevent the rise of a pan European power unaligned to our interests. By surrendering our seat at the EU we have at a stroke failed in that objective - now the EU is free to become ever more powerful without us, and our needs and wishes will become increasingly irrelevant.