{"id":13866,"date":"2017-11-05T14:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T13:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/05\/they-voted-for-brexit-in-a-cry-of-pain-what-happened-to-the-left-behind-john-harris\/"},"modified":"2017-11-05T14:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T13:55:20","slug":"they-voted-for-brexit-in-a-cry-of-pain-what-happened-to-the-left-behind-john-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=13866","title":{"rendered":"They voted for Brexit in a cry of pain \u2013 what happened to the left-behind? | John Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May hasn\u2019t delivered on her pledge to rebalance the country. In fact with austerity cuts, economic revival in leave-voting areas seems more unlikely than everIt was not much more than a year&nbsp;ago. The result of the EU referendum was still being pored over, and the political moment seemed to be all about two things: a view of much of the leave vote as a cry of pain and resentment from parts of the country beyond London, and the urgent need to do something. Journalists were still being dispatched to the supposed Brexit heartlands; among politicians, the idea was that now that such places as south Wales, the&nbsp;east of England, the Midlands and the non-urban north had spoken so loudly that their deep problems were finally going to be addressed. Related: What the Brexit impact papers may \u2013 or may not \u2013 reveal Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/nov\/05\/brexit-theresa-may-economic-austerity-leave-voting\" target=\"_blank\">They voted for Brexit in a cry of pain \u2013 what happened to the left-behind? | John Harris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May hasn\u2019t delivered on her pledge to rebalance the country. In fact with austerity cuts, economic revival in leave-voting areas seems more unlikely than everIt was not much more than a year&nbsp;ago. The result of the EU referendum was still being pored over, and the political moment seemed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}