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"please don't think that all the people who voted to leave did so for xenophobic racist reasons." But the whole premise of leaving is universally build on xeno
by glenndebacker 10y ago
"please don't think that all the people who voted to leave did so for xenophobic racist reasons."
But the whole premise of leaving is universally build on xenophobic racist reasons or started with xenophobic arguments. The line between Euroscepticism and Anti-Europeanism is very thin, there is a market for "Breaking point" ads.
The fact that 9/10 of most anti-European parties (even on the mainland or those a Nigel Farage is dweeping with) is xenophobic/racist from nature is extremely telling.
- dawson 10y agoNo, it's really not.
- Myrmornis 10y agoLeave won due to the votes from non university-educated people in towns & villages and white working class, and both groups are more xenophobic than the university-educated generation under 40, who are furious. People were not voting about economics or trade agreements or the ideals of multi-national unions. It's not pretty to have this divide along socio-economic lines, and it's not pretty for liberals to realize that they wish that the xenophobic white working class didn't have such an influence in a vote, but that's how it is.