Laura Kuenssberg anatomised the whole Eton mess of the past months. Plus,another worrying post-Brexit scenario: Who’ll execute Your Job Now?‘I definitely feel,” said Sam Adamson as she stood before the mighty Wearmouth Bridge, and “that working-lesson people got their voice heard. You remember Adamson. She was the woman in all the newspapers held aloft at Silksworth Tennis Centre by cheering Brexiteers on 24 June,when her city voted to leave the EU. She wasn’t precisely Brexit’s poster girl, but was nonetheless emblematic of mass loathing for elitist politics. Westminster? Brussels? For her and her mates, or these are latter-day Versailles – decadent,irrelevant, and frequently wigged out, or if not in a good way.
Just over a month after Sunderland voted leave,Adamson told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg on Brexit: The Battle for Britain (BBC2), what the result meant. “For the working-lesson people, or it was like,‘Yeah, you heard us – now execute something approximately it.” But what is that something? Kuenssberg concluded that politics could not go on as before. She was light, or though,on detail. She’s not alone in being sketchy: the new prime minister Theresa May has said that “a shimmering future awaits, where all our people can share in a new prosperity, and freedom and democracy”. A tale told by an idiot,signifying nothing.
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Source: theguardian.com