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In reply to the discussion: so my Portuguese friend was accosted in a coffee shop this morning [View all]Human101948
(3,457 posts)21. Certainly not trying to be an obtuse denialist...
Just don't think that xenophobia was the only reason. Other people agree in their assessments.
What has certainly happened is that decades of globalization, deregulation, and policy changes that favored the wealthy have left Britain a more unequal place, with vast regional disparities. Its the shape of our long lasting and deeply entrenched national geographic inequality that drove differences in voting patterns, Torsten Bell, the director of the Resolution Foundation, a bipartisan think tank, commented on Friday morning. The legacy of increased national inequality in the 1980s, the heavy concentration of those costs in certain areas, and our collective failure to address it has more to say about what happened last night than shorter term considerations from the financial crisis or changed migration flows.
That argument sounds persuasive to me. On Thursday night, it was the early announcement of a huge Leave vote in Sunderland, a depressed city in the Northeast that used to be a big shipbuilding center, that indicated the way the night was headed and caused the pound sterling to plummet in the Asian markets. Meanwhile, the Remain vote was consistently stronger in prosperous areas. Economics matters.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/why-the-remain-campaign-lost-the-brexit-vote?mbid=nl_160625_Daily&CNDID=27694289&spMailingID=9111072&spUserID=MTE0MTYzMzk5ODg3S0&spJobID=942410256&spReportId=OTQyNDEwMjU2S0
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so my Portuguese friend was accosted in a coffee shop this morning [View all]
PaulaFarrell
Jun 2016
OP
I hope your friend is okay. I have been reading a number of stories of non-anglos being attacked
niyad
Jun 2016
#2
This American woman had a similar experience, came up with an interesting campaign:
auntpurl
Jun 2016
#37
Trump gets a lot of passes and excuses made for his voters too. The denial is deep
Person 2713
Jun 2016
#3
Anecdotes certainly prove that there is no other reason behind the BREXIT votes...
Human101948
Jun 2016
#5
There can be more than one fucking reason for people voting leave. Claiming that xenophobia
Chakab
Jun 2016
#19
The heads of the leave campaign exploited concerns about economic insecurity and systemic equality
Chakab
Jun 2016
#22
Even the anger over the consequences of neoliberal policies gets directed toward
tblue37
Jun 2016
#35
"A few people here believe that you can't reduce Brexit to nothing "but" racism and xenophobia."
Denzil_DC
Jun 2016
#18
These are the two cities that I know best; and I think there's very little chance of problems
LeftishBrit
Jun 2016
#43