Few people realize, Brexit is really about the worsening
rich-poor divide (inexorably happening in every country on the
planet, including here in Singapore). Just as it is the poor and
unemployed who are pissed off with the system for which they
(justifiably or not) blame for their poverty and wretched
circumstances, and would vote for the Singapore opposition parties,
for Duterte, for Donald Trump, etc, those who voted for Brexit are
just pissed off at being poor, at having foreign talent migrant
workers taking over their jobs, so they expressed their anger using
their votes, and misguidedly imagine their lives would improve
after leaving the EU. Unfortunately, and this is how the world
based on human economics works, cest la vie, the regional and even
global destabilization for years and even decades to come that will
be part of the inevitable consequences of Brexit, will hurt
everyone, both the rich and the poor, not just in Europe, but
globally across the world, and even right here in Singapore. And
whenever such global economic crises strike everyone, it is always
inevitably the poor that suffers disproportionately more than the
rich, such is the nature of human economics, the nature of physical
incarnation. Ironic, the poor speaketh angrily using their votes,
but in the end the poor will still suffer more than the rich from
the unintended consequences of their misguided vote to leave the
EU.
Also, check out Jonathan Eyal's commentary on Brexit (link
below), just one among dozens and hundreds of Brexit commentaries
popping up in every newspaper, TV media and news websites across
the world in the next few hours and days :
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/a-protest-against-parties-and-price-of-globalization
