06-27-2016, 09:14 AM
(06-24-2016, 03:59 PM)kandrathe Wrote: What we hear in the US is that the pro exit people are anti immigration. I have to believe it's much more complicated, involving economy, political power, judicial sovereignty, and so much more.
Brexit is complicated. I don't think the reasons for voting for it are. It's a vague anti-status quo, anti-elite protest vote mixed liberally with anything from mild discomfort with immigrants through to full on white nationalism. Pull the anti-immigrant element out of the Brexit vote, and you're left with Alan Sked and the sovereignty wonks, who could barely fill a smallish village pub.
-Jester