Tobiasia wrote:Dejanic wrote:Their was 2 people on the news who said that, I'd wager there's a lot more people who were going to vote leave but chickened out due to fear over the Jo Cox murder (which literally wrecked leave in the polls) or were taken back by the absurd WW3/ISIS/Global recession scaremongering from remain.
"Global recession". Take a look at the stock market on your phone. Not quite a recession, but pretty awful. I imagine many leave voters were swayed your way by a quite racist and factually pointless immigration debate. If we want the free market, we have to have immigration.
As i've pointed out elsewhere, and as Vassenors link has brexiters themselves point out, almost nobody gives a fuck about european immigrants.
They just don't like muslim immigrants.
It isn't a coincidence that the Brexit side started winning during the refugee crisis, and due to them shouting TURKEY as loud as they could.
The problem is, the DAS RACISS!!!! crowd simply wouldn't let anyone differentiate between immigrants, so everything became coded dogwhistling and all immigration got criticized strongly.
What the public wants is no muslim immigration.
Which could have been resolved by a british government:
1. Promising to perpetually veto turkeys admission
2. Stopping immigration from outside the EU, which would have cut total migration in half.
3. Refusing to take in refugees.
Instead everybody was forced to talk in coded language to prevent the SocJus crowd going apeshit that someone was, once again, pointing out their ideas don't line up with the reality people experience.
