A class act*

J Harris in the Guarnida today gets half-way there by concluding that 'Brexit is a class issue, and all else follows from that.', but it is a new petit-bourgeois analysis of class, of course, one in which journalists themselves are somehow classless.

The upper class is 

an alliance of old and new money that has set the basic terms of British politics for the past 40 years. Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson were educated at the same exclusive school as the prime minister whose idiotic decision to hold a referendum gave them their opportunity. Nigel Farage and Arron Banks are archetypal examples of the kind of spivs who were given licence to do as they pleased in the 80s. 

Both groups are contemptible:

Conservative politicians who championed leaving the EU and were then given the job of carrying it out have deserted their posts....key leave campaigners cheated their way to success

The working class appears only as a shadow:

...in some of the most neglected parts of England and Wales, a huge chunk [yes -- a majority] of the people who voted for it did so because they had not been listened to for decades.... In an awful instance of irony [really?], the misery and resentment sown by the deindustralisation the Tories accelerated in the 1980s and the austerity they pushed on the country 30 years later were big reasons why so many people decided to vote leave. 

However, these gullible losers would have carried on regardless, had it not been for

a surreal campaign of lies and disinformation, both during and after the referendum campaign, waged by entitled people with their eyes only on the main chance [to do what?].

Then it gets a lot simpler for Harris who grasps it all in terms of the political parties and their policies:

[The explanation lies] in the failure of successive Conservative leaders to adequately deal with a tribe of uncontrollable Tory ideologues [how would they do this --de-select them?] , and in the ingrained tendency of post-Thatcher Conservatives to play fast and loose with the livelihoods and security of the rest of us.  ...the modern Conservative party... [is]..., but an alliance of old and new money that has set the basic terms of British politics for the past 40 years....[Meanwhile] ...Whatever the explanation, and whatever the levels of support for leave among Labour voters [let's just ignore those and prefer a metropolitan journalist's views] , a supposed party of opposition – and a leftwing one at that – accepting a project birthed and then sustained in the worst kind of rightwing political circles is a very odd spectacle indeed....[From the point of view of what social liberal journalists think a left wing position is, of course] [They should support a PV, even if this]...would involve something to which even these supposed radicals are averse: risk

There is an awful lot of risk aversion among Remainers and all those 'business spokespersons' who endlessly bleat about 'uncertainty' while rewarding themselves bonuses for 'enterprise'.

Meanwhile, we can continue to rubbish as hard as possible the one option that can never be permitted, no matter how popular: 'the chaos of no-deal...the unimaginable chaos of no-deal'