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In reply to the discussion: Here's why 52% of British voted to leave [View all]Denzil_DC
(7,232 posts)This OP is a glib gross oversimplification by somebody who doesn't even live in the UK. The fact it's got 60 recs from a mainly American board is a bit depressing, but not surprising.
The elements of truth in it are what make the future scary.
Yes, political forces in the UK have successfully fooled whole areas of the UK that their problems are down to the EU and immigrants, not the nonsensical austerity measures or long years of deliberate neglect, underinvestment and wasteful mismanagement of the economy in pursuit of the fetish of Thatcherism.
When eventually there's been whatever sort of clampdown may result from new measures to restrict immigrants (not that the Leave side seriously believe that their winning is going to do much to reduce numbers, as they've now admitted after the result), but EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEMS STILL EXIST, who do you think the next scapegoats are going to be?