An excerpt from Globe and Mail opinion article:" …Those regions and constituencies that voted “Leave” are precisely those that have the most to lose. As research from the University of Groningen and the Centre for European Reform found, the British regions most dependent on the EU for their well-being are not London and its wealthy environs (which have economic relations beyond Europe), or Scotland, but rather the rural areas and mid-sized cities of Europe, whose entire economic basis is Brussels-centred and has no market or support without Brussels. “There is a positive correlation,” they found, “between a region’s level of economic integration with the EU and that region’s Euroskepticism.” Further, the Leave-voting classes and regions are those that will be most devastated by the post-Brexit recession and fiscal crisis.
The second fallacy is that this has something to do with “immigration” – which, polls show, was the largest motivation for “Leave” voters (the great majority of whom live in districts where there is little or no immigration).
The brown people in Britain’s cities – who were the subjects of UKIP Leader Nigel Farage’s scare stories of sexual predation – aren’t immigrants; their grandparents mainly arrived as British subjects carrying UK passports. Refugees from Syria and alarming hordes camped out in Calais have nothing to do with the EU. The French who’ve started hundreds of businesses in London, the Polish who have given new life and prosperity to Britain’s trades – they do stand to lose. So do the two million Britons who live and collect benefits elsewhere in the EU.
Britain didn’t attract other Europeans because of the EU, but because it had an economy to which they could contribute.… "http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/remember-the-brexit-as-the-moment-when-xenophobia-won/article30609024/
An excerpt from Globe and Mail opinion article:" …Those regions and constituencies that voted “Leave” are precisely those that have the most to lose. As research from the University of Groningen and the Centre for European Reform found, the British regions most dependent on the EU for their well-being are not London and its wealthy environs (which have economic relations beyond Europe), or Scotland, but rather the rural areas and mid-sized cities of Europe, whose entire economic basis is Brussels-centred and has no market or support without Brussels. “There is a positive correlation,” they found, “between a region’s level of economic integration with the EU and that region’s Euroskepticism.” Further, the Leave-voting classes and regions are those that will be most devastated by the post-Brexit recession and fiscal crisis.
The second fallacy is that this has something to do with “immigration” – which, polls show, was the largest motivation for “Leave” voters (the great majority of whom live in districts where there is little or no immigration).
The brown people in Britain’s cities – who were the subjects of UKIP Leader Nigel Farage’s scare stories of sexual predation – aren’t immigrants; their grandparents mainly arrived as British subjects carrying UK passports. Refugees from Syria and alarming hordes camped out in Calais have nothing to do with the EU. The French who’ve started hundreds of businesses in London, the Polish who have given new life and prosperity to Britain’s trades – they do stand to lose. So do the two million Britons who live and collect benefits elsewhere in the EU.
Britain didn’t attract other Europeans because of the EU, but because it had an economy to which they could contribute.… "http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/remember-the-brexit-as-the-moment-when-xenophobia-won/article30609024/