While Brexiters will often claim they voted for “sovereignty”, its a well known fact that this is a dog whistle for “we hate foreigners”. And it was implicitly understood that the justification for the Tories hard brexit (which has caused significant economic harm) was that it would bring down immigration numbers (to the tens of thousands). So as you can imagine it was a bit of a shock for the brexiter’s to learn that net migration into the UK has gone up…again, to over 600,000 a year, a 20% increase on last year.
As I predicted before brexit, the entire idea of brexit as a solution to immigration was a racist myth from the start. It was never going to produce any meaningful reductions. Never mind the fact that immigration is actually vital to the UK economy. Now personally, I reckoned the…
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