It sounds like the tide is turning late back towards the UK narrowly voting to stay in the European Union. The murder of that pro-Europe politician by some far-right psycho who supported Brexit has become a turning point.
To me, those wanting out have deluded themselves into believing that Britain can return to what it was 100 years ago when it was THE world power and they are scapegoating and blaming immigration for Britain's decline to the middle-of-the-road economic power it is now. What they fail to see and acknowledge is the world has changed especially in a post-GFC era. Britain's empire vanished long ago and they no longer have foreign colonies to exploit for its manpower and wealth. The world economic centre has also shifted for the first time in about 400 years eastwards away from Europe and towards the Asia-Pacific region thanks to rising Asian powers in China, India, Japan etc. Britain hasn't adapted to the changing times and splitting away from Europe and isolating themselves will only make things worse (eg: they'll lose European subsidies for farming, etc).
ps. As an Aussie, I do laugh at the cries for "independence" from the Brexit (mostly neo-con south-eastern English) crowd. They're the same ones that opposed Scottish independence and are on the same political side that would oppose Australia having its own head of state separate from Britain. One rule some
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