AIBU to wonder why approx 40% of Londoners voted for Brexit?

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Can any London Brexiters tell me why you voted for Brexit? I am really curious to know.

If we can get rid of people who don't have a useable skill that would be brilliant.
And include an awful lot of people from Anglo Saxon stock.....

And include an awful lot of people from Anglo Saxon stock.....

I'm not technically a Londoner as I live just outside in Slough, but I work and socialise in London. I voted to leave because I want the UK to have control over UK policies. I don't want laws made in foreign countries to override UK law, and I would like an Australian style points system for immigration. We need plenty of immigrants to come and work here, but I would like the government to be able to choose which ones are allowed to come like in Australia or America, on the basis of their skills and whether they have a job to come to. In my view, someone who doesn't have any skills we need shouldn't just be able to come and live here just because they feel like it, in the same way that I can't just rock up in Australia and demand to live there. I know that's an unpopular view on Mumsnet, but its not such an unpopular view in the real world, hence the Leave win.

harshbuttrue,

So you want more migration? That's where the Australians are, as it happens. As for 'laws made in foreign countries', I assume that means you'd rather we left the UN and the WTO too?

Because I want to leave the EU for reasons of self government and trade

But to trade with the EU, their rules must be followed... currently we have a say in making said rules. If we leave , we won't have a say.

Given that we have a Tory government I was happy that there was additional controls in place.
I can only assume that all leavers have private healthcare, send their kids to independent schools and don't require any state support.
To be fair, the leavers I know are in this category and voted leave to reduce workers rights. The governments reaction in the first six weeks would support this.

harshbuttrue,

I think a lot of australians aren't happy with their immigration system, TBF.
Also, its the system trying to kick a sick little girl out of the only home she's ever known link

And include an awful lot of people from Anglo Saxon stock

Trust me, many leavers would love to get rid of remainers with that attitude. Who needs them?

What do you mean surfer? That leavers think they can kick out anyone who disagrees?
If you kick out those that pay the taxes you really will be more fucked.

Oh, so it's only people who voted remain that have jobs & pay taxes? are you being serious?
& we're not fucked thank you, far from it.

No, that's not what I said.
Bowing out now from this thread now, you can't argue with stupid.

Surferjet put down the device and back slowly away you're better than this. No point joining in these goady nasty threads Small will be along any minute to tell you just how wrong and stupid you are.

Yeah, you're right.

Thanks for rescuing me.

Albert I'm sure that if you have a skill that the UK needs, you have nothing to worry about.

How fucking patronising.

How is that patronising? It is just alluding to a points based system.

No, as someone else has pointed out, other EU nationals already here are highly likely to retain their right to stay.

Ah well, 'Brexit means Brexit' and wibbleflange means wibbleflange.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/aug/07/yes-minister-brexit-eu-jonathan-lynn-sir-humphrey

Yes Minister from many years ago - on the Foreign Office's attitude to the then EEC:

Umm - checks my one brain cell is in place - because they wanted to leave would be my guess.

Dying to know which particular EU laws these take back control types are feeling particularly oppressed by. Is it the right to swim in shit-filled beaches they are missing, or nostalgia for being forced to work more than 48 hours a week by unscrupulous employers?

Kaija, I've been longing for a long time to know the answers to those questions too.

Possibly the one where we're forced to trade in only straight bananas, too? Or the one that makes it illegal to sell eggs by the dozen? (a person I thought a) a friend and b) highly intelligent genuinely cited these as some of the reasons they voted Leave. The mind does boggle.)

"Trust me, many leavers would love to get rid of remainers with that attitude. Who needs them?"

Well if you will say silly things!

"Closing the borders" is not going to change how cosmopolitan London is thank god since over half of the net immigration to this country last year (for example) was from outside the EU.

And half was from inside it. It wont STOP immigration but it will slow it.
That is PROVIDED our politicians stand firm and do not give in to EU bullying to keep open borders

Added to which remaining in the single market, which will IMO be necessary for the UK's economic survival, will mean "accepting" some form of free movement....

I presume crossroads3 that you are not one of the many young British people who cannot afford to buy your own home because of our exploding population.

Why do you actively want mass immigration to continue apace?

Have we not got enough foreign restaurants, fried chicken shops, kebab houses, nightclubs, curry houses, Polish shops, Oriental supermarkets, Black Housing associations, street carnivals, Mosques, Temples, take away vans, shisha bars, Uber taxis, Polish toddler groups to satisfy your demand for "vibrancy"?

How many more immigrants do you want? Ten million? Twenty million? When do you want it to stop?
Waits for the wriggling out of answering to begin...

olderthanyouthink

But to trade with the EU, their rules must be followed... currently we have a say in making said rules. If we leave , we won't have a say

Nonsense. Countries all over the world trade with the EU and do not follow their rules.

You are confusing "trade" with being in the single market.