Psephology and electoral demographics has been an active area of study for decades.

It helps inform debate if we understand why people voted the way they did.

Well, 1.6 million voted remain, 1 million voted leave.

So what?

Everyone is in several bubbles of some sort, at the same time, including you.
When you personally are involved in making a decision this impacts on people outside of your own bubbles.
The problem is a simple one: struggling to come to terms with the idea that other people are entitled to vote differently and that their votes carry the same weight as your own.
Recognising that in a gathering of millions you are statistically insignificantly outside of your personal 'Big I Am' bubbles can be tough.

Here we have yet another barrel-scraping thread from The Engineer who posts these feeble comments and disappears leaving everyone else to bite on them.
He must be chuckling away.

I would be if the issues were not so serious.

You seem to be lacking experience.

And you seem to be lacking a point.

People can vote however they like. It would be nice if they considered the impact of their votes on others a bit more though.

Quite; one of the driving forces behind the vote appears to have been a desire to punish those living in perceived "bubbles", be they London bubbles, elitist bubbles, intellectual expert bubbles or whatever.

Not quite sure what they were being punished for, save for Living in London, being successful or vaguely clever.

There appears, also, to have been a CT element to all of this; i.e. they're not really successful or clever but just a bunch of Islington glitterati, who are somehow forcing everyone else to remain in their grubby little bumpkin bubbles.

There's an interesting American Republican (seemingly neo-con) bloke who writes a column in City AM ("John Hullsman?) who seems obsessed with this idea, and claims to have predicted it all. Who thinks we have to address this perception or else Western society will fall and we'll all be eating with chopsticks, in 30 years.

Problem is, its all a perception. None of it is real. There is no conspiracy to keep the common man down. Just a bunch of dopey common men who, for whatever reason, don't want to get up!

Strange times indeed...

Do you realise this goes for everyone? Including you?

Perhaps you should be hailed as a martyr.....after you've realised how many Londoners voted to leave.

It seems to me that they can only vote the way they like if they vote the same way as you do. I believe they have an excellent voting system in North Korea.

Good call. There are a lot of false perceptions around these "bubbles" that deserve to be pricked.
For instance, more than 2.5m people in London and Scotland voted Leave. They deserve some credit for tipping the balance, I think.

Yeah but I'm sure you'll be reminded they'll be the lower classes and not two-bit lawyers and pox doctors' clerks.

Ho ho ho!

How the truth hurts!

Social isolation is not the only trait of Brexiters. I can spot em a kilometre off.

Yes, yes, we know, Remainers have all kinds of special powers that make them superior.
Let's hear the rest of the traits that allow you to spot us without your binoculars.

lolololol....it's not the truth and it doesn't hurt.

Well, there's about 865,000 pensioners in London.

If you add the Swivel eyed right wing loons plus the mentally ill, that'll explain it.

Well yes, those pensioners represent around 10% of the population but hardly 40% of voters, even if you add in the right-wing loons and the mentally ill. And I'd love to win the bet that all 865,000 pensioners didn't vote to leave. Another lost case.

Isn't it lovely (at least until the DS upgrade is complete) that by simply adding we can mask some of the sneering that is redolent of a very unpleasant attitude towards those we consider beneath ourselves, such as people with mental health issues?

I also find Brexiters a rather dour, humourless bunch...

Go on, give us a

But seriously, I call it as I see it. I can understand the right wing (hard and soft) voting for Brexit, plus the Corbinistas, of course. I just can't bend my noggin around your average working class joe doing so. That's not sneering, just a genuine sense of wonderment that someone would willingly and as others have put it here, blow off their own foot then crow about how great their prosthetic is.

If you're looking for a laugh I'd seek out some of the 'toys out of prams' rant posts on here. They always send me into fits of giggles. And then, of course, recent history gives us the "I call it for Remain" threads, or pompous appeals before the result was revealed for Leave voters to accept the result "with good grace".
So those I recommend. Far funnier than finger-pointing at people with mental health issues and deciding they must have all voted Leave.
Most of my family are 'average working class Joes' from shop and airport workers to small business owners living on the outskirts of or just outside London. And by far the majority, of all ages and cultural heritages, voted to Leave. Perhaps if you had their experiences you would have done the same. Perhaps if they had your experiences they'd have felt differently - it's as simple as that.

Perhaps you should talk to some. But it means going out, so maybe not....

It hardly matters, anyway; the vote is cast, the end is nigh, the anchor is weighed. it strikes me that constantly re-running the referendum and the reasons for the result is an exercise in futility. far better to just accept that others see things differently and try to get on with making the best of things. (Granny's homily for the day).

I know. Oleo Strut, Aurichie, Ash - they're comedy gold.