Are Remainers brighter than Brexiteers?

Are Leavers thicker than Remainers? The short answer is: yes. At least, on average. That’s according to a paper analysing voters on both sides of the godawful Brexit referendum, which says that: ‘When compared with Remain voters, Leave voters displayed significantly lower levels of numeracy, reasoning and appeared more reliant on impulsive ‘System 1’ thinking.’

Now obviously I voted Leave and I’m super-duper clever, but this is not remotely surprising; June 23 was effectively a vote on globalisation, which favours the more intelligent and educated at the expense of the less gifted. When rising sea levels turn our little ponds into great lakes, the big fish are going to benefit a great deal more. Globalism has also come to be seen as a high-status belief system, something Christopher Lasch foresaw in his prophetic The Revolt of the Elites, writing that the ruling class were escaping from their traditional ties and obligations towards the rest of society and becoming less rooted.