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Remembering 4 years ago. I spoke to several English Brexiters who I thought were otherwise fine people. The main gist of their argument revolved about the Eastern Europeans turning up and stealing jobs. /1
I could never understand how would a born and bred English speaker be disadvantaged against someone who had to learn a different language, culture and up and go far to earn money. /2
I always thought, I should be so lucky to not have a foreign accent for the rest of my life. To have to learn to operate in a totally different system to what I gew up in. Surely that would present an advantage for me? My Brexiter friends didn't see it that way. /3
It was always a simple zero sum game for them. Every foreigner doing well (or even ok) here, was a threat and needed to go, including myself, who possibly even employed some of these people. /4
Once I realised that there was no reason, no logic, I saw that there's no salvation at the end. Britain needs to disappear and its largest part to reach real bottom for it to start coming back up. I won't live to see this. It will take more than a generation. /end
