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Re:UK votes to leave EU by vidarh on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:17AM (#11967425)
> I don’t have a horse in this race, but the language you use (‘bigoted’) is way too strong…

It is not. Have you followed the debate? I'm sure there are plenty of Leave supporters that aren't, but a huge proportion of them have also expressed outright racist views.

> The UK can easily fill this up with high-skilled immigrants (Masters/PhD’s in technical fields). Wouldn't that be better than accepting blue-collar workers from Eastern Europe?

Not when a lot of the jobs that needs filling are blue-collar jobs.

> It is high-time that the UK start re-engaging with its own commonwealth. This includes closer trade and immigration.

About half the UKs immigration are from commonwealth countries, and a substantial proportion of trade. EU membership did not prevent that.

And noteworthy in this respect: The UK is accepting a lot of lower skilled labour immigration from these countries because of demand. I don't think it is likely that the immigration will drop much with Brexit, for the reason that it could already have been drastically tightened without touching EU immigration if there was any kind of genuine desire in government to limit immigration further.

Re:UK votes to leave EU by shard972 on Sunday June 26, 2016 @11:53PM (#11984132)
> It is not. Have you followed the debate? I'm sure there are plenty of Leave supporters that aren't, but a huge proportion of them have also expressed outright racist views.

So by that chain of logic, couldn't we say that because a huge proportion of muslims are for the punishment of homosexuals that we can generalize them as homophobic?