Remain supporters march through London. 2 July 2016. PAimages/Daniel Leal-Olivas. All rights reserved.In the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the EU commentators have been falling over themselves trying to explain the result of the referendum.
British voters have just done something that, according to the vast majority of expert opinion, will make them considerably, and permanently, poorer and less influential. There is as much disagreement as to why people voted the way they did as there is about what should now be done about it.
Many theories have been advanced over the past three weeks to explain the outcome of the referendum. For some it was the inevitable result of the political establishment reaping the rewards of a long history of EU-bashing and scapegoating. For others the public did not so much endorse the views of the political establishment, as express their disdain for it, through a protest vote aimed at out of touch elites, predominantly from those who feel left behind by globalization.
