Comments on: Immigration topped concerns for Brexit voters

By: Richnewts

Richnewts — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:21:16 +0000

Englishman you sir are a gent

By: Richnewts

Richnewts — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:20:45 +0000

Dream on fella if you think that the impacts of being in the EU are mostly positive on our lives yeah positively wrong

By: the Englishman

the Englishman — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 09:22:17 +0000

I voted to leave but immigration didn’t even hit my radar. My wife was an immigrant and now I am one, so no I don’t think immigration was as bigger issue as there polls say it was, after all it depends where the poll was taken in order to bias the result. Federlist remainders and the EU elite love to paint the British as xenophobic racist! But I would think that most British people would concede that immigration is important but there must be an element of control somehow.
I voted last time and I voted for the EEC, a trade block. Forty odd years down the line I’ve ended up with a de facto Federal government sat in Brussels. I didn’t have any say over that what so ever, nor any of the treaties that gave the sovereignty of my country away even that those that gave it away were my own politicians! The simple reason behind my vote, and I think millions of others, was we just don’t want a full Federal government dictating over our lives. Before the referendum I felt that democracy and accountability was disappearing before my eyes and that was due to my own government and the EU Polit Bureau. I could not inflict that on my children and my grand children, it was as simple as that. I do believe in what I voted for all those years ago, a strong European trading block. But I would fight to the death to stop a European Federal Superstate and have a government sat in Brussels.

By: andrew ajv-regulatory-services

andrew ajv-regulatory-services — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 06:47:40 +0000

Leave voters by and large couldn’t differentiate between impacts on their lives as a result of being in the EU (mostly positive) and impacts on their lives resulting from 35 years of home grown unfettered free market ideology for which the EU was not in any way responsible.

By: The Voice Of Reason

The Voice Of Reason — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:26:49 +0000

The distinction needs to be made between people who voted leave because they disliked “foreigners” and the large majority of the leave voters for whom immigration was an issue because of the effects. Suppression of wages, housing shortages, shortages of school places etc etc. It was never about the Poles or the Czechs or the Romanians, it was purely about the numbers and the impotence of our elected representatives to do anything about it. Cameron warned the EU that this was a big issue and they told him to get stuffed.

By: Joe Thorpe

Joe Thorpe — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 19:49:36 +0000

London is populated by foreigners it is not a reflection of Britain or the British. If Foreigners want to live in the UK they are the ones that must adjust to our way of life, if they don’t want to embrace it they can clear off to somewhere more in keeping with their sensibilities. I flew bacl specially to vote to leave, I couldn’t care less about the money or GDP it was about being able to kick out of power those that don’t govern us the way we want. With the EU we could vote one way decade after decade & we still end up with the same. EU commissioners are vetted to ensure they all share the same blinkered thought patterns of those from the past to ensure their is no deviation from the yellow brick road

By: evad666

evad666 — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:36:41 +0000

Perhaps they only ask foreigners in the Polls?