How many of you witnessed the homelessness Polish and Roma in towns and cities?
Expand on this one please? Being homeless, they weren’t taking housing from anyone.
Brexit is a symptom, in my view, of the fact that those who are worse off are shafted time and time again. The rich will still be rich regardless of the EU. Brexit will not solve the issue of austerity for example.
Immigration of lower socioeconomic groups will of course have an impact on the same groups within the UK.
The issue is that successive governments haven’t helped these groups. Immigration showed that up - but without immigration, our economy would no doubt be in a worse state.
Let’s not pretend that before the changes relating to EU immigration policy, things were rosy and there was work for all. That’s bollocks - look at what Thatcher did to working class communities by decimating the mining community outside of London and pouring all resources into the City (making the rich even richer). Before that, after the Second World War - unemployment rose simply because not everyone can work.
If a country looks after everyone, not just the rich, then everyone benefits. We do not - instead we get nonsense like the “trickle down effect” which equals = make the rich richer and hope everyone else is better off too.
Leaving the EU will not make things better. The Tories will continue with austerity, housing costs will continue to escalate, etc etc.
Instead Brexit creates a distraction and only a generation later will people realise that it made not a fucking difference to those who really need it.