Well the Brexiteers, the ERG and Populists, ratcheted up the fear around immigration for their own ends. Racism was unleashed with a wave of hatred and fear. It empowered the extremists. We’re reaping the rewards. A bunch of racist Nazi thugs opportunistically jumping on the bandwagon.
Sadly, it undermines any constructive discussion on how we really handle immigration – what is good and what is bad. Brexit has chucked out whole rafts of much needed European workers (carers, NHS, teachers, doctors, fruit pickers and catering). We’re replacing them with Chinese, Indian and Africans who are far less transient! The antimuslim rhetoric is obnoxious (and nobody despises religion and particularly indoctrinating evangelists, Muslims and Catholics more than me). In a tolerant society we respect other peoples’ beliefs no matter how we feel about them.
They’ve been working at this a long time. And they seem to think it was promised them by winking Tories, and T.
A very cynical part of me sees it all as a regular summer English past time, now.
People cannot cope with the heat, especially city heat, that never dissipates day or night. Off their heads with the heat.
Yes I think they feel empowered and justified by xenophobic Tories and Brexit. There is a strange social process that seems to take place – a mob mentality. They pick up on the mood and reinforce each other. We’ve had this xenophobic/racist attitude coming from the top for a long time now. Immigration is obviously a big and growing problem. This racism makes it harder to deal with in my opinion. The extreme minority do see it as sport. I agree – the heat doesn’t help.