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To elaborate on this point: seems to me that Britain has an ossified class structure and the nation is ruled by a narrow clique of public school and oxbridge educated types, often from families that have held influence for many generations and with lose links to aristocracy. https://twitter.com/richardbentall/status/1360509991355109378
2/ These families/people are the real elite who, pursuing an Orwellian strategy, successfully persuaded many working and middle class people that they were anti-elite working to rid the U.K. of some other imaginary elite that was running the country. Genius in a way.
3/ Why did they do this? Well, mathematical historian Peter Turchin (yes, they do exist) has argued that modern societies become politically unstable when there is an over-supply of elite talent, that threatens existing social hierarchies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction
4/ in the U.K. there has been a massive increase in graduates since the late 1990s. This has been threatening to the existing aristoelitist ruling class (ARC), and also, to lesser extent, some working class (although uni is the main driver of working to middle class transition).
5/ To understand how this relates to Brexit, read Lampadusa’s wonderful Italian novel (good English translation) ‘The Leopard’ about Sicilian aristocrats responding to the Risorgimento (unification of Italy).
6/ Lampadusa’s aristos side with the revolutionaries because “everything must change for everything to stay the same”. There were many different factions behind Brexit but, for the ARC, this was their motive. And it worked, at least this far.....
7/ The political consequence of Brexit has been Tory (and hence ARC) domination of Parliament, which they are now trying to use to cement their position of power in various ways (eg Henry VIII powers, reducing Parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals, ‘reviewing’ judicial review).
8/ Meanwhile, the new elites - the near 50% of young people who are graduates - are being kept in their places, burdened by debt and with little opportunity to play a role in shaping the country’s future.
9/ So in summary, part (not all) of the story of Brexit is that it has been a plot by the ruling elite to preserve power, the very opposite of what those elites claimed. How does this connect back to the monarchy?
10/ The monarchy are the bedrock on which the ARC are built. Their popularity makes the British class structure acceptable - actually inevitable - to the masses. This is not to question the Quern’s ‘political neutrality’. The monarchy does this merely by existing.
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