There are centainly some racist/xenophobe people and they were pretty loud during and after the Brexit campaign. However the main issue is that the mainstream

There are centainly some racist/xenophobe people and they were pretty loud during and after the Brexit campaign. However the main issue is that the mainstream leadership took cues from them and the dialog about immigration has changed. Now it's pretty much native vs immigrants, England vs Europe. It's no longer a family/love story. "Once Britain is free of the EU’s shackles, there’s nothing it cannot achieve". This kind of slogans extend to simple immigrants as well because "they" are the reason UK is no longer an empire...(so they said).