Well, you can't say they didn't try. Over the course of an anti-Brexit campaign based solely on scaring people with the prospect of losing money, the political establishment in Britain pulled out all of the dirty tricks that have worked so well for it in the past: vastly outspending the opposition, doing their best to gerrymander the voting, rallying the global plutocracy to aid them in their scaremongering, decrying the opposition as xenophobic morons and whipping up "anti-racist " persecutions against them, and even pouncing on the still-warm corpse of a murdered woman to make a final attempt to sour the public mood against nationalism.
Even so, the public told
them to get stuffed. Should this not be taken as evidence that the British
people, after all this time, have still not descended to the state of homo
economicus? A race long assumed to have degenerated into a mass of talking
pigs, terrified of rocking the political boat for fear of spilling a few
miserable pennies over the side, have shown an atavistic flash of courage that
has no doubt chilled their masters to the bone.
