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2. Duh.
Thu Jun 22, 2017, 10:16 PM
Jun 2017

My mother-in-law visited from Norwich a few weeks ago. She voted "leave" based exclusively on anti immigration, insisting that too many Syrians are flooding in solely to freeload.

We had what arguments we could without ruining civility....

But it was clear that many, many people voted "leave" based on anti-immigration, and it certainly gave that side a big run-up in the polls in the weeks prior to the vote, when they really amped up that aspect of it.

Frankly I think the pros and cons of eu membership and what a brexit would look like was far too complicated a decision for many, but the idea of weak borders and immigration decided in Brussels was something simple they could latch on to and ignore everything else.

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