If people wanted more control on EU migration all they had to do was insist that our own sovereign governments upheld EU rules to the later. It was actually very disingenuous of David Cameron to renegotiate the rules when he/we wasn’t even observing the previous rules. Or maybe they should have just applied common sense and understood that the control was actually the economy. EU citizens were not coming here to “sponge of the system”, they were nett contributors to the system and drivers of the growth of the U.K. economy, something we’ve all reaped the benefits of. They were only coming here to fulfill jobs in a period where essentially the U.K. unemployment rate was zero. Stopping Johnny Foreigner coming over is racism and when you look at the facts stopping Johnny Foreigner is literally all you’re left with in wanting to “take back control” of our own immigration policy.
As for the rest I’ll just leave you this
To repeat again, I’m explaining what polling said were the main reasons why people voted leave.
But in that answer (and video) you have just explained why many other people probably did. No understanding or appreciation as to people’s (who have a different life to you) genuine concerns. The James O’Brien formula ie revert to suggesting everyone’s a racist and not as clever as them, rather than listen, accept some of what someone might have to say (genuine fears/concerns - impact on jobs/pay, schooling and infrastructure - even if there is net contribution) and then explain why you think remaining would be better and what can be done to change and improve things for them.
It’s pretty shocking and sad (as in upsetting) that people are walking around this country thinking over 50% of the population are racists or thick c*nts.
Ps I agree successive governments chose not to enact some of the (temporary) measures regarding immigration, ignoring those concerns/fears, hence me mentioning the ignorance (arrogance) of a majority of the political class as to why many voted leave. To be believe these could’ve been enforced long term is naive....as naive as believing if we were still in the EU we could’ve run our own successful/separate vaccine procurement and roll out whilst their joint effort struggled (Even though legally we could have done so, it would never have been allowed to happen politically)
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