I think what the Working Class laments, and defiantly clings to, is their communities and their secure traditional ways of life. I mean traditional in that they are stable and usually give a rhythm to life an a town.
I think I will use a song from a musical/movie to illustrate this point:
Teyhva and the people of Anatevka do not lament the loss of their shitty jobs, or the strict material aspects of their lives, they lament the death of a community, a world they knew, that their parents knew, that they hoped their children would know. They, like for example the Ohio or Pennsylvania Steel Worker laid off and stranded in a dying town where he once knew his neighbors, worked with them and shared a bond of community with, faces an uncertain future as a stranger in a strange place. You may be able to sooth the economic loss with welfare, but you cannot restore what was taken by Globalization and Free Trade. What Neo-Liberalism has taken from them cannot be replaced by mere welfare.
Anatevka is what the villagers wanted.
While this video is about Trump voters, the parallales with Brexiters and Trump voters are there.
I could envision the sad lament of Anatevka being song by any of these people, be they British or American, whose towns and villages face an agonizing disintegration. Liberals IMHO don't care because increasingly they have a cosmopolitan outlook, and in their world, Anatevka has no place.
I'm curious if @
Yvaelle has any thoughts on this post.