\u201cintelligent, working people\u201d were misled<\/a> in the referendum.<\/p>\nThe central complaint of the film is that working people need more say over their lives, and particularly that all men should be given the vote (and perhaps even women).<\/p>\n
This is the same call for British \u201csovereignty\u201d (read: lawmaking powers) to be returned from Brussels, and for Westminster politicians to stop pursuing policies that clash with voters’ wishes.<\/p>\n
Anti-democracy campaigners may be less sneering today than their forebears, but they are just as convinced that they know best, and that people of quality \u2013 previously breeding, now education \u2013 should take decisions on behalf of the great unwashed mass of thickies.<\/p>\n
Nothing drawn from watching Peterloo would incline you to agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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