16.08.2019 - 15:45 [ Spiked ]

From Peterloo to Brexit: The political class still feels nothing but seething contempt for ordinary people’s opinions.

Today is the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, when working people in Manchester were attacked and murdered by cavalry forces for daring to demand the right to vote. And what is our political class doing on this anniversary of such an important event in British political history? They are plotting, tirelessly, to overthrow something that millions of working-class people, and others, voted for: Brexit.