Try to understand why we voted Brexit

IT’S remarkable the amount of energy that has been devoted to undermining or overturning Brexit and so little time spent on understanding what led to the public voting for Brexit in the first place.

For many on the liberal elitist left, Brexit is to be opposed, not understood.

One side has spoken but, nobody on the other side has thought about what the reply might be.

No one has seriously considered that the political effects of reversing Brexit, would be a hammer blow to British democracy.

The erosion of public trust, hardening of social divides, and the political equivalent of pouring petrol on a populist fire. But after all, the referendum marked the first occasion in Britain’s history when the liberal elitist middle-class, has lost.

Until this point they had gotten all they had ever wanted.

The question is why are people all across the West rebelling against the mainstream and levels of distrust are at an all-time high.

Is the EU simply too complex for ordinary people to understand? Elites know better they claim, the liberal elitist left knows best of all, doesn’t it?

We know what the EU was meant to be, we also know how it turned out to be.

Voters for Brexit simply opposed the liberal consensus. We felt excluded from the political conversation.

Careerist politicians, particularly in the Labour Party, showed no interest in the working-class, is it any wonder that “people like us felt we have no say in government.” We worried about the democratic deficit in the EU. Just how does democracy work in the EU?

Many feel the status quo has failed them, but government seeks a continuation rather than remedy our problems.

We in Wales have Labour and Plaid Cymru who are determined to overturn Brexit and maintain the status quo.

The very people who squandered European Structural Funding of £10.2bn, are desperate to ignore Brexit and maintain a system that keeps Wales poor, ill-educated and deprived.

Labour in Wales having won the largest voting share of every UK General Election since 1922, every Welsh Assembly election since 1999, and each European Parliament election from 1979 until 2004, and having reduced Wales to European poverty status, still wants to retain the status quo.

Graham Simmonds Blackwood