That's a very long comment to fail to justify it's not xenophobia. It is. Leave got better results in places with less immigration, i.e. in places where they d

That's a very long comment to fail to justify it's not xenophobia. It is. Leave got better results in places with less immigration, i.e. in places where they don't have foreign neighbours but fear having them. Moreso, restricting immigration will actually make economy worse and take unskilled jobs out of the country (to China, India, etc), thus screwing even more over the working class. If it was the economy, people would favour immigration (young people paying taxes, keeping jobs around, not using the NHS, etc) and complain about other stuff (company tax loopholes anyone?), but they complained about immigration and that's what they fear. It is xenophobia, but of course no one fears Swiss, Japanese or Swede immigrants because they're rich. I don't see many problems in UK for Saudi princes or Russian magnates that exploit and slave people, again because they're rich. Racism is basically now fear of the poor (hence all the negativity about asylum seekers and other refugees). People, including me of course, are assholes.