So if someone voted leave, they were right to (because leave won), if they have concerns over immigration they are automatically legitimate and *can't* be racist, if they believe their mother would feel uncomfortable on a ward with a trans person...you get the idea

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This monologue of Andrew Marr's from the morning after the referendum has stuck with me. It's still basically the consensus on the Brexit vote, and it's also wrong. But more than that it cements the notion that politics must always be about listening and never persuading

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Of course what it boils down to is that they're all middle class, arguing about who can best put themselves forward as the representatives of a working class that hasn't existed for 40-50 years (and even then, it was not as noble as they like to think)

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There's a certain tendency within Labour which equates authenticity with being very right wing. It's not just Blue Labour, but obviously they represent the most extreme of this view (as they basically seem to believe fascist street violence is the last true representation of the working class)

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