EU referendum: many don’t care what happens next, they just wanted change

I agree with the analysis but this last sentence is a gross generalisation, similar to saying that "the working class are racist, and stupid, and backwards, which is why they are voting Leave". Most of us lefty (I would prefer liberal as lefty is a concept from 100 years ago) middle-class, which despite the tone of the author I do not consider an insult, have been constantly fighting to defend the right of everybody to decent standards of life. Why is it such a crime to also be concerned about our own quality of life? The objective should be to improve the conditions of those who are treated unfairly not to criticise us for wanting a decent life.

If the working class identifying left don't see this as a rejection of them and their values, they are in for a shock. People didn't vote in favour of a new left revolution - they voted in favour of far right politics, and a return to the nasty class conflict of the past. Anyone from a university, writing in the Guardian, or inner London is now a target. The incredible naïveté of the call to arms from the left is mind boggling. I'm not a fan of the EU, but this vote wasn't about the EU, it was about the currents of political ascendancy. A vote against the status quo, or a vote against the condescending left who want to co-opt the subjugated classes into a revolution they don't want, that isn't intended for them? The ascendancy has been revealed, and it won't be labour, left, or Greens. The crowing from sections of the far left is telling, however, with regard to the split of votes. If people weren't out fighting for a remain vote because of complacency, they were harbouring dreams of a new socialist revolution that will not come to pass, and voted leave. I don't see a new world of left triumph, I see a nation where I was accepted and felt at home on Thursday, but where, by Friday, my future here has disappeared, along with the future of all of my precarious, young, EU friends living in the UK... No one will give jobs to people whose right to be in the country won't be confirmed for years. Meanwhile, as we leave in droves, will the mobilised left be chasing a self involved and oblivious fiction?

"For many working-class people, this was not a referendum on the EU. After all, very few of us know very much about it, apart from what the likes of the Daily Mail’s bananagate told us" Just me who finds this an odd statement from an LSE Research fellow? You work at LSE (let's leave aside the working class hero bit) and the only information you could find about the EU was in the daily mail?