Branching histories of the 2016 UK referendum and ‘the frogs before the storm’

Re:Branching histories of the 2016 UK referendum and ‘the fr... by morsch on Monday January 09, 2017 @05:38PM (#13360499)

So he is worried that an anti-immigration backlash will limit free trade, and because of that he wants to limit immigration and the best way to do that is to join forces with (other) anti-immigration politicians in a project to leave the EU?

It still sounds incoherent to me. Leaving one of the biggest single market places is not a free trade move. Post-Brexit Britain is not a place where anti-immigration forces have less political power. If it made British Trump less likely (and I don't think it did) then not because of appeasement of British nationalists but because it served as a wake-up call for the rest.

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Re:Branching histories of the 2016 UK referendum and ‘the fr... by surfmike on Monday January 09, 2017 @05:55PM (#13360636)

Well one could argue that Brexit will still preserve free trade (indeed the government wants to preserve that). And UKIP seems to be imploding, so it's plausible that Brexit could have neutralized them.

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Re:Branching histories of the 2016 UK referendum and ‘the fr... by dragonwriter on Monday January 09, 2017 @06:02PM (#13360682)

> Well one could argue that Brexit will still preserve free trade (indeed the government wants to preserve that).

The government says they want it, but that doesn't mean that there is any reasonable basis tomexpext that it will happen.

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