RE: UK to leave EU
June 29, 2016 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2016 at 2:49 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 29, 2016 at 2:10 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: To be fair, Islamophobia is a bullshit term, people should be suspicious of muslim immigrants, and there's nothing wrong with that given the facts as they are. That may in fact be the one thing that redempts this political decision in spite of its economical difficulties. I would honestly feel more safe moving to Britain right now than in many other parts of Europe because of it, although, ironically, Brexit might make it more difficult for me to do so right now, I suppose(not that I was planning on it anyway).
You do realize, that the closed border thing is not going to happen for years - perhaps never, depending on the agreement reached between UK and EU, right? Or that more than half of immigration into the UK is from outside the EU? Paradoxically Brexit could mean more muslim immigrants, especially if France makes good on the promise of kicking British border control out of Callais and letting the refugees camp out on the other side of the channel. Not to mention, that there's also most likely not going to be a militarized border between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Yes - the xenophobes greatly helped to pass the "Leave" vote, but they likely will be disappointed.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw