They should be happy. But the promised utopia didn't arrive, so now Farage is blaming the next thing, "just get rid of the 30k boat arrivals and things will be great".

(There's 900k arriving each year on visas, which if you are concerned with immigration is a far larger number, but that is harder for Farage to argue against)

Once the boats are all blasted to bits or whatever, and things still don't get better, who will be the next person to blame.

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mytailorisrich 3 days ago | parent [-]

Immigration has been a big issue for a very long time and it partly caused the Brexit vote.

To me your reply exemplifies my previous point: You dismiss those concerns. This is what happened with Brexit and this is what has been happening for a long time over immigration. This can only end badly.

> There's 900k arriving each year on visas, which if you are concerned with immigration is a far larger number, but that is harder for Farage to argue against

They argue against the high level of immigration legal or illegal. Of course illegal immigration is an easy topic handed to them on a plate by successive governments since it is very visible and very little is done against it.

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ta1243 3 days ago | parent [-]

If they were spending their effort arguing against 95% of immigration, which are people arriving at Heathrow, then I'd be more sympathetic.

People voted for brexit was all about stopping Iraq and Turkey from sending millions of people to the UK. -- I remember the leaflet, I remember the voxpop of people saying "Europe, fair enough, but not from Africa, Syria etc".

People voted for Brexit to stop immigration. It decreased European immigration, but more than replaced it with African and Middle Eastern immigration) because they believed that being in the EU meant. This was inevitable.

They were wrong based on their own beliefs, and its difficult to argue against that viewpoint.

> They argue against the high level of immigration legal or illegal. Of course illegal immigration is an easy topic handed to them on a plate by successive governments since it is very visible and very little is done against it.

One major policy was implemented which massively increased immigration, illegal or not, was Brexit. Farage's flagship policy.

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mytailorisrich 3 days ago | parent [-]

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		people voted to stop immigration which wasn't happening (people from outside europe) Brexit means we left agreements which let us send people on boats back to France. It also means that rather than having local europeans with similar culture doing work, we have people from further afield, and people aren't happy. The last 5 years shows what a lie brexit was, it delivered exactly what brexit voters were voting against. We already had what they wanted. Of course Vote Leave knew this, they went door to door to non-european communities saying "vote leave and europeans won't be able to come in and instead your friends and family will". But sure, keep voting for the liar. Will be interesting to see what happens next.