Forget angry, Brexity stereotypes – the ‘white working class’ does not exist | Zoe Williams

The standard complaint is that people bang on about the white working class to invoke nationalism or bash people on benefits. But there’s a deeper fallacy hereI do a podcast called Another Europe Is Possible, and this week we recorded an episode with the sociologist Brendan McGeever talking about the politics of a nation in decline. He said, en passant, “the white working class is a fallacy”. It wasn’t the standard complaint of recent years, namely: “Why do people a