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Betraying Brexit: the revolt of the elites against the people | Coffee House

<blockquote>Why is everyone so chilled out about the threats to Brexit? Why isn’t there more public fury over the plotting of lords and academics and experts to stymie Brexit and thwart the will of 17.4m people? In all the years I’ve been writing about politics, I cannot remember a time when democracy has been treated with as much disgust, with as much naked, Victorian-era elitism, as it is being today. And yet we’re all bizarrely mellow. We’re going about our business as if everything is normal, as if the elites aren’t right now, this very minute, in revolt against the people. We need to wake up.</blockquote><p>Source: <em><a href=”http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/betraying-brexit-revolt-elites-people/”>Betraying Brexit: the revolt of the elites against the people | Coffee House</a></em></p>

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  1. I was chilled out because I didn’t know about the “threats”. However, since the main argument of Remain was that Leave people weren’t “mellow” enough, giving their “lords and academics” enough rope to hang themselves, and proving how mellow we are really, seems pretty shrewd.


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