The old Great Britain..... I had to laugh last night, they were interviewing some folks and a young girl, probably 20 years old or less said she thought Brexit would be great because Britain could go back to how it used to be, lots of small businesses, higher wages, a better NHS etc. If only time travel were possible, she could go back to those 'good old days' and see what they were actually like.
In the good old days, we actually called for immigrants from the Commonwealth to come and help our poor little island to grow. They even sent boats for them like the Windrush. People have been flocking here ever since, helping our country to diversify and grow and they have been welcome. Even the ones we have subsequently treated like shit, like some of those that came on the Windrush.
Now some people who want to leave the EU would argue that it's these immigrants that are simply living off the state, taking council houses, filling doctors waiting rooms, and using up all the school places. The problem is that it isn't them. There's a few, I'm not denying it, but there are a lot more of their cherished Little Englanders, skiving off the state and expecting everyone to do them a favour than immigrants. The majority of Immigrants are here, working, many in poor conditions, on low wages with zero hours contracts and still paying tax. There are hundreds of your Brexit voting people not willing to work under those circumstances, so the hit on our Service industries, which have been mentioned earlier in this thread and the NHS infrastructure is going to be enormous. Note: The NHS is not just doctors and nurses and you ain't getting that £350m a week either.
These are the percentages of White, Black and Asian in the UK.
White British 82.9%,
Other white 4.2%
Black/African/Caribbean/black British 3%,
Asian/Asian British: Indian 2.3%,
Asian/Asian British: Pakistani 1.9%,
mixed 2%,
other 3.7%
Religions - Christian (includes Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist) 59.5%,
Muslim 4.4%,
Hindu 1.3%,
other 2%,
unspecified 7.2%,
none 25.7%
Source: World factbook, updated January 2018
Farage galvanised all these xenophobic fears - 'you don't want the Romanians living next to you, do you' and then lied about finances because no one checked the rebates. Since then people have just dusted off their 2nd world war Union jacks without checking any facts.
Honestly guys do yourself a favour, read some of the benefits of being in the EU, you'll be shocked and really should re-appraise your position. Please don't be silly and say they're all terrorists and Brexit will solve that, either, you know that neither of those statements are true.
