Excellent article, interesting to read a view from outside Europe. One interesting point that you could add to the analysis regarding the suspicion of the EU within the less well-educated sections of British society is that of press balance and freedoms. The campaign to leave the EU has, for many years prior to the actual referendum, fuelled many misconceptions regarding the EU, which play into both left and right wing voters becoming sceptical about the EU. These misconceptions were largely published in the newspapers and news outlets of certain organisations with vested interests in the UK leaving the EU. News International, owned by Rupert Murdoch, is one very large example - Fox News being its US arm. Other publishers took similar stances. The BBC has had its independence eroded over a long period by successive governments reducing the length of its Charter - effectively, the BBCs right to exist. As a result, the BBC did not pursue lines of questioning that could and should have exposed the lies told by those promoting Brexit - whether lies about finances or about EU regulation. Unbelievably, some of those lies were repeated in the press following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. I'll explain briefly. The fire at Grenfell Tower was such a disaster because of several factors, but mainly due to the use of flammable cladding on the outside of the building. A British newspaper of large circulation, the Mail, claimed that the cladding was only fitted due to EU environmental regulations. This a subtle misrepresentation of the facts. In Germany, the particular variety of panel used has been banned for many years. The manufacturer, US-owned, specifically states that the panels should not be used on tower blocks. But the panels were the cheapest available, so in order to meet our obligations to insulate buildings in order to reduce climate change and also reduce customers bills for energy, our councils across England (not Scotland, interestingly, where such panels were also banned) fitted the cheapest panels available, not because of the EU, but because of the fact council's funding from central government has been cut to the point they can no longer effectively deliver the services they're supposed to deliver. But the right wing press, whether owned by Murdoch, the Barclay Brothers (see their behaviour in Sark for examples of their fitness to own a newspaper) or some other self-interested oligarch, don't like that kind of talk, as it undermines their chosen leaders of the UK and the neoliberal concensus they've sold to the British public. Unaccountable business interests have more to do with Brexit than any vote I've ever witnessed in the UK. Final example. The owner of Butlins, a UK-only chain of holiday resorts, funded the Brexit campaign and did not declare the donations - of over £500k. I wonder what he gains from the UK leaving the EU..?