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That's a snark that does not bring anything to the discussion. People were dissatisfied with the fact the country could not control immigration from the EU. Th

That's a snark that does not bring anything to the discussion. People were dissatisfied with the fact the country could not control immigration from the EU. That's how it was and trying to understand those concerns rather than mocking them might have avoided Brexit in the same way as that might prevent hard-line parties from winning across Europe. > That's some major bullshit No... They implemented the allowed restrictions on the second batch of Eastern European countries because they had not put any restrictions on the first batch (Poland, etc) in 2004 and got a massive number of immigrants from those countries.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>That's a snark that does not bring anything to the discussion. Where's the snark? I was being dead serious. >People were dissatisfied with the fact the country could not control immigration from the EU. What for? The UK's major problems were all self inflicted by it's own crooked political class not by the Eastern Europeans coming to work and pay taxes. They were just the scapegoats in a xenophobic driven witch-hunt because blaming some powerless foreigners who can't vote is always the easy way out. Also, if the UK didn't want any Eastern Europeans all they had to do was veto their EU membership when those countries applied to join. Simple no? And now, how did Brexit fix the migration issue? Now you have even more migrants than before except they're not eastern European. Is that better now? How was it all not low-key xenophobia.