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In reply to the discussion: OMG, what terrible news to wake up to [View all]Corporate666
(587 posts)Thatcher has been gone for over 25 years. The problems Brits are experiencing on the ground are new problems that have gotten substantially worse in the last few years. Brits don't tend to fall for the 'blaming the past' move, and reaching back 25 years to lecture a foreign country about how they shouldn't believe their lyin' eyes and it's actually a dead woman from the 80's that caused their problems is going to elicit rolled eyes and immediate dismissal of everything else you're saying.
I live here and the fact that the jobs still exist, but are mostly all occupied by immigrants, isn't lost on people. Especially blue collar people who have seen the changes with their own eyes over the years. Along with long wait times at hospitals and schools and skyrocketing house prices. Brits are patient people and willing to suffer a little today for a better tomorrow - which is largely why they've stuck with the EU for so long. But the EU has become more oriented towards consolidating power over the years and less interested in the needs and desires of the individual member states. That Cameron was elected with a mandate to go to the table with the EU is proof that the UK tried to fix this. And Cameron's mandate had nothing to do with kicking out foreigners or ending immigration. It was mostly about governance, autonomy, regulation and such. That the UK said "piss off" wasn't lost on voters.
More than half the country aren't bigoted racists. It's low hanging fruit to dismiss such a groundbreaking vote that way. It clearly goes much deeper than ignorant country folk being sold a lie by a snake oil salesman of a politician.