@ArabellaScott
Brexit could be symptomatic of deeper issues - a widening split between 'liberal' affluent middle class media types /and trad, conservative with a small c, maybe skewing more working class voters. It's very hard to see broad social movements clearly as they're all filtered through lenses of various media biases, of course.
Brexit broke Britain. But it happened because people in positions of power stopped listening to grass roots problems.
In turn this was exploited by Leave Campaigners.
And this lead to further entrenchment rather than listening.
There was a point at which both sides could have reached a level of agreement, but both sides decided 'winning' outright was more important.
And now we find ourselves with supermarket shelves empty because everyone was too up themselves to start listening rather than enjoying the sound of their own voices.
Its frustrated me for a long while.
On a practical level things aren't getting done because of barriers put up by ideology.
This was all amplied by social media and the Guardian instead of playing to the strengths of journalism seeks to carve out a further for itself as a leftie opinion column blind to the day to day difficulty of a huge percentage of the population.
I don't see the point in the Guardian. Once upon a time I'd have read it. Now its just like the Mail but for the university educated.
Its no longer a newspaper.