> How else would you explain brexit? The economy. I'm sure there's an undercurrent of xenophobia and "little England"-ism which explains it, but it's not the f

> How else would you explain brexit? The economy. I'm sure there's an undercurrent of xenophobia and "little England"-ism which explains it, but it's not the full picture. Probably the biggest factor is that neoliberalism has been fucking working class people over since Thatcher. It's (sadly) empirically demonstrated that economic hardship pushes people to right-wing populism (see the 1930s, and the 2010s). Marx was right, history is moved by the material conditions of people (not fully, but in large part).