> I get why people are frustrated, but it feels like anger's just being used for political gains. There is no easy answers to the current economic problems.

I have a more cynical cynical variation on that take. its being used to distract attention from the need for real economic (or any other) change. Politicians want business as usual (i.e. the Blair/Cameron "centrist" consensus).

I do not think the EU is relevant to this. They have the same problems.