(The fact that the government has replaced that with cheap labour from outside the EU doesn't help)
The truth is none of the main "reasons" Brexit voters claimed to be motivated by (free trade, sovereignty or immigration) actually matched any facts.
So either brexiteers we're really really stupid. Or they were lying about their reasons.
And given the total lack of affect of any facts on people's intention to vote leave, it sort of has to be the second right?
This sounds like interesting analysis - do you have a link?
> And how we are still unable to control our immigration.
You mean unwilling, and the "we" being politicians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kin...
Percent of votes [b]
City Remain Leave
Edinburgh 74.4% 25.6%
Brighton & Hove 68.6% 31.4%
Glasgow 66.6% 33.4%
Bristol 61.7% 38.3%
Aberdeen 61.1% 38.9%
Manchester 60.4% 39.6%
Cardiff 60.0% 40.0%
greater Belfast 59.9% 40.1%
Greater London 59.9% 40.1%
Liverpool 58.2% 41.8%
York 58.0% 42.0%
Leicester 51.1% 48.9%
Newcastle upon Tyne 50.7% 49.3%
Leeds 50.3% 49.7%
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Birmingham 49.6% 50.4%
Nottingham 49.2% 50.8%
Sheffield 49.0% 51.0%
Swansea 48.5% 51.5%
Southampton 46.2% 53.8%
Bradford 45.8% 54.2%
Coventry 44.4% 55.6%
Salford 43.2% 56.8%
Derby 42.8% 57.2%
Portsmouth 41.9% 58.1%
Plymouth 40.1% 59.9%
Sunderland 38.7% 61.3%
Wolverhampton 37.4% 62.6%
Wakefield 33.6% 66.4%
Kingston upon Hull 32.4% 67.6%
Stoke-on-Trent 30.6% 69.4%
Please don't mix up terms, it shows cluelessness and undermines your argument.
The Schengen area had nothing to do with who could or couldn't migrate to the UK when the UK was in the EU.