Boris and Gove like to rail against the "elites" of the In campaign. Like the trade unions, Labour and the Green Party, I guess. But more fundamentally, the remain campaign is all about seeing our neighbours as equals -and our team-players in the pursuit of common good. Our net contribution builds up those countries newly out of communist grip. We're helping them out and building a team with them. Kindness, patience, mutual respect. Love. They want us to stay, we want to stay with them.
Whereas the Leave campaign is full of elitist concepts swirling around Britain's superiority. We're the fifth largest economy in the world! (Germany's fourth - so what?). The Anglosphere! The Commonwealth! Our national heroes of centuries past! But now we're shackled to the corpse of Europe! Those icky people! EU migrants are bringing diseases (seriously, we've had that many times) and burdening our public services!
Well, we negotiated a special deal, because we're British. But that's not good enough for us, because we're British. So we'll leave and they'll give us a better deal, of course... because we're British. Or maybe they won't because they're tired of us just being dicks.
It doesn't matter what your earnings or accent are, if you think the British are fundamentally better than our neighbouring countries - then that's elitist.
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