Migrants Keep Coming and Coming

[baggiematt]

Interesting point of view, apart from the demographics don’t really back up your perspective. Generally, areas with more immigration were more likely to vote remain, such as London where I live - or most large cities in the UK.

The areas who largely voted leave were the opposite, areas which hadn’t been ‘flooded by foreigners in their droves’. The North East, Wales and Cornwall for example.

So although your point may apply in some limited situations, on the whole it’s not typical of why people voted the way they did. Do you think immigrants are risking life and limb to flood north wales or similar areas where these is no work? Yet these areas voted to leave overwhelmingly, probably because they voted very naively and bought into every con from the Leave campaign going.

At the end of the day, if you voted to Leave it really wasn’t a very intelligent way to vote, as has been proved since 2016. And if you’re now whinging about immigration, then it especially hasn’t been worth it.

You can look at the data in anyway you like and make a different argument but there weren't many areas in England that voted remain. London was an outlier, one of the only outliers for England and there could be a number of reasons for that, such as age demographics. I can't comment for Scotland, Wales or Ireland but given migration has been less an issue in those countries, it's no surprise they saw no benefit in leaving.

For England there was a significant link between deprivation and voting leave. The Black Country for example, overwhelmingly voted leave. This, despite higher levels of migrants settling in the Black Country than most areas (who you would think would prefer to remain although who knows...)

I do think if you voted Brexit, you wouldn't/shouldn't have expected any realistic change for a long time. It's hardly got off the ground in reality. I don't see how you can evaluate if it's worked or not...it hasn't even been 3 years since we left and 2 of those have been during a pandemic FFS. Talk about it in 15 years and you'll get a proper view about what it is and how it's impacted the UK.