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People voted brexit to stop non European immigration — specifically Muslim immigration.

“ The movement of people in Europe fair enough. But not from Africa, Syria, Iraq, everywhere else, it's all wrong”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/27...

> People voted brexit to stop non European immigration

Well then they are pretty fucking stupid.

Yes. You’ll also notice correlation between brexit voting and educational achievement, one with income, and interestingly one with prevalence of leaded petrol during formative years (which is linked to age)

Weigh brexit vote by tax paid per year, lifetime tax paid, or years having to live with the consequences, by educational attainment, and you get a remain landslide.

Why didn't Theresa May implement that policy if that's what people were voting for? Sounds like pretty fucking stupid leadership to me

Because we took back control from the unelected Eurocrats to give to elected leaders like May (appointed after tory MPs had a public spat), Johnson (after a few thousand tory members with average age 64 got to vote for the funny man off tv), Truss (selected by MPs) and Sunak (just appointed by the tory back bench as nobody else seemed to exist)

If they did then it was dumb as it's had the opposite effect.

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