Won't get fooled again

I was recently reading an article offering a post-mortem of the EU referendum result, which quoted a middle-aged man as saying “They just don’t show us any respect.” That sums up in a nutshell what the result as all about. It went far beyond the EU itself to become a generalised expression of discontent with the many small ways in which the political class had become accustomed to treating ordinary people with contempt and not regarding their views as worth listening to. On my other blog, I suggested that the smoking ban may have been one factor behind it.

There can be no better example of this than the “child refugees” that we have allowed in from the Calais migrant camp. Everyone can see from the photos that they’re not children, they’re grown men of military age. Twitter and Facebook are awash with jokes on the subject. The attempts by the likes of Stella Creasy and Gary Lineker to tar anyone pointing out the bleeding obvious with the brush of racism simply do not wash, and just invite contempt.

We can see through it now. We know you take us for fools, but we’re not. And, one day, the revenge will come, on a massive scale, at the ballot box.