How Media Patronizes People: The Brexit Example

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Cuz what they would have is, they'd have some super educated university professor go on and talk about, you know, the reasons for staying in the European Union all the rest of it. And then it would always be often be contrasted with, you know, the least educated person explaining in a vox pop why they wanted to leave the EU. And then it would always be like >> [laughter] >> kind of like patronizing, oh look at those silly little northern people generally. Northern is oh how how very funny. Actually as a person there was actually very good, you know, very strong arguments for why we should leave the European Union, but it was always contrasted with And this is what will happen here, right? It'll be contrasted with the with the kind of it'll be contrasted with some, you know, trucker or something like that.