Pepe wrote:
Right wing politics is gaining popularity in part due to the open border policy allowing mass refugee immigration...
Wasn't this the main reason for Brexit
No. It was Germany that took in many refugees, I believe the UK didn't even take in the agreed minimum number.
Brexit first came about because of in fighting withing one political party and the arrogance of their leader.
The vote went the way it did for a huge host of reasons tbh. Though I very much hold responsible the party who brought it about, who then went on to run both remain and leave campaigns, members in that party then fell out with each other, they then publicly slagged each other off over it and started ramping up the lies and exaggerations to try and win, by the end it was a game of who could lie the most with the leader of one campaign caring little for the country and the leader of other only doing it so that if he won he would immediately put his name into the hat to become PM, which he immediately did and was subsequently stabbed in the back by other politicians in his party who wanted him out of the way so that they themselves could become PM.
The UK already had the power to hugely decrease immigration numbers and successive governments chose not to.
But that is all for another thread.....