I just think writing all people off as ‘thick and racist’ is what has created this situation.
It has been proven, time and again, that high levels of immigration, has an adverse effect on low skilled workers.
Ie the working class.
People like lorry drivers, labourers, plasterers, builders.
It’s a fact that in certain industries, wages have stagnated, or actually declined. This is before taking inflation into account, so in real terms it’s even worse.
People have gone from being able to earn a living wage, to not being able to. And when complaining to the government, about the sudden inability to feed their families, were dismissed as ‘thick and racist’.
My DH is a construction worker, his pay declined massively.
He is also not white, so was lucky enough to never be branded racist for pointing it out, but he definitely has pointed it out to people.
As far as I can see, this was the catalyst. The then labour government pushed away the very people they were supposed to represent (the working class) and so they turned to UKIP. They were then branded thick and racist again, and so the divide widens and widens.
I’m sorry, but I fee like the left have got a hell of a lot to answer for. I feel like respectful, reasoned debate about immigration and the effects it has on the working classes salaries should have been had 10 years ago.
People were made to feel worthless, and disposable.
And it was just the icing on the cake that post brexit we had people in outrage, talking about how leaving the EU put their jobs and ability to feed their families into jeopardy, with NO sense of irony.
I do NOT condone violence, I do NOT condone TR or NF, I would never attend a rally for the EDL, but it’s not too much of a stretch to my imagination why people do.