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lemmy.world

I’m not actually sure it it’s LAMF, but i say leave it. It is interesting.

“I think just a wave of disappointment, because obviously people voted Brexit, they were voting pro-change, they wanted to change something,” she says. “What they got is nothing; empty promises, because not much actually changed.”

Maybe if they spent more of the article on what people thought they would get?

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lemmy.world

“That is the basis of why the locals were pretty cheesed off, because all of a sudden – and it happened extremely quickly, I’m talking four or five years – all our little areas were now full of people we didn’t know,” says Fairman.

Read between the lines and I think it's obvious.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

From the year before Brexit to the year immediately after it, pretty much all the 400k a year (peak) inflow of immigrants from the EU was replaced by a extra 400k a year immigrants from South East Asia.

Around 50% of EU immigrants immigrants to the UK had Degrees. The ones from South East Asia that replaced them were nowhere near as highly educated.

Before Britain was operating high value added Industries beyond the local capacity of supplying domain experts by using those coming from abroad, which was mainly from the EU (also many from South East Asia, just far less than from the EU). You can't operate such industries with people who have no schooling beyond learning to read and write and basic Maths.

I lived in the UK as an EU immigrant for over a decade until Brexit and most of the consequences for it were there to see already well before even the vote, even those consequences that matter the most to the kind of people whose main reason to vote Leave was xenophobia.

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lemmy.world

It's a little more than that, though, right?

She believes Boston’s journey to Brexit was a unique one: at the end of the 1990s, as locals became less involved in Boston’s farming trade, the town began to change. First it was Portugese-speaking new arrivals. Then, as Poland and Lithuania joined the EU in 2004, ‘gangmasters’ began bringing buses and minivans of workers to the town. Exploitation was rife, with the gangmasters leaving workers little after deductions from wages and housing them in squalid conditions. From her viewpoint running the local Citizens’ Advice Bureau, Fairman says the change was noticeably rapid.

One year, a few dozen new National Insurance numbers were registered, the next she says it was 10,000 or so. “That is the basis of why the locals were pretty cheesed off, because all of a sudden – and it happened extremely quickly, I’m talking four or five years – all our little areas were now full of people we didn’t know,” says Fairman. “But actually our whole agricultural economy really did rest and expand on the incoming labour that was provided by the gangmasters.”

Yes that's "people we didn't know" it's also organized crime and human trafficking. It's okay to not like that. It doesn't make one a nazi to want to see people fairly treated.

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