Why Brexit Was Not a Mistake

Re:Why Brexit Was Not a Mistake by peterashford on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @05:35AM (#12000458)

The problem is that immigrants have NOTHING to do with the woes of UK society, they are just a convenient scapegoat. I would argue that the social erosion that accounted for the protest vote of the disaffected was entirely due to the neoliberal program of the government that they themselves elected.

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Re:Why Brexit Was Not a Mistake by collyw on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @06:41AM (#12000698)

You can't say they have NOTHING to do with it when we have problems with lack of housing and other resources that are stretched.

There are easy fixes to these problems (build more houses), but its silly to say that immigration doesn't contribute to the problem.

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Re:Why Brexit Was Not a Mistake by demonshalo on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @05:49AM (#12000527)

I did not use the word immigrants. Not even once. I was talking about homogeneity. A society without immigrants can turn heterogeneous as well. This has nothing to do with immigration, it has to do with cultures and ideas.

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Re:Why Brexit Was Not a Mistake by peterashford on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @06:01AM (#12000569)

So you don't believe that the influx of immigrants into the UK was affecting its homogeneity?

I can't quite see how you can't see that remaining homogenous and accepting immigrants are opposite sides of the very same coin?

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