Multiple groups were voting leave for multiple reasons, but yeah one of those groups objected to, slavic, especially polish immigration enabled by the freedom o

Multiple groups were voting leave for multiple reasons, but yeah one of those groups objected to, slavic, especially polish immigration enabled by the freedom of movement [1]: > research suggests that areas that saw significant influx of migration from Eastern Europe following the accession of 12 mainly Eastern European countries to the European Union in 2004 saw significant growth in support for UKIP and more likely to vote to leave the European Union. The number of polish residents in the UK had doubled in the time span from 2008 to 2016 [2]! The number has went down since, but poles still make up the second largest non UK nationality of the UK population [3]. Given that Ukrainians are slavs too, maybe that's the reason why the UK isn't opening its borders to them. I don't think the Ukrainian refugees are running out of countries to escape to though, so it shouldn't be a problem, especially given how receptive eastern europe is to them. Still I'm glad that my home country Germany is open to receiving Ukrainians. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_vote_in_favour_of_Brexit#Immigration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_vote_in_favour_o... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_the_United_Kingdom#Demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_the_United_Kingdom#De... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-born_population_of_the_United_Kingdom#Countries_of_origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-born_population_of_the...