Brexit: There May Be Trouble Ahead

LOCAL PARTY MEMBER, ALISTAIR TINTO shares his personal thoughts on the outcome of the EU Referendum.

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How depressing it was to wake on Friday morning and learn that the nightmare of a vote in favour of Brexit had actually happened!

Rude awakening: UK votes to leave EU

The tragedy is that many of the people who voted for Brexit weren’t really voting for Brexit at all. The poor and disadvantaged, those who have been left behind by the effects of austerity economics, those whom the Labour Party has lost touch with, those who don’t have decent housing, those earning low wages, those on zero hours contracts, those whose kids’ schools are overcrowded, those whose accident and emergency units are in crisis,

Perhaps people thought it was immigration that caused every problem in our society. Perhaps it was frustration with the rich elite who have been getting steadily richer as wages have been frozen year on year. People thought voting out would solve the problem. It will not. Boris Johnson won’t care any more about people than David Cameron and George Osborne ever did.

Britain has become smaller, weaker and  more divided as a result of this vote. Xenophobia, bordering on racism, has now been licensed and is becoming accepted in mainstream discourse. The sad thing is that, as it starts to unfold, it is becoming obvious what a terrible mistake has been made. Now virtually unstoppable. It’s a Greek tragedy unfolding on a national and international scale.

The world has now become more fractured and more dangerous. I feel sorry for all the young people, the majority of whom voted against this idiocy because they know that the world is better together than apart: they are going to have to live with the consequences.

Alastair Tinto is the Publicity Officer for Tamar Valley Labour Party

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