Loki wrote:KaiserJeep wrote:Brexit is not about economics, and it never was. Brexit is about intolerance for a flood of Muslim refugees and the behaviors they display.
The Brexit vote was about a lot of things, but Muslim rape culture wasn't one of them. The Rotherham scandal was perpetrated by Pakistanis, who are either illegals or descendants of those who legally immigrated to the UK as members of the Commonwealth. EU had nothing to do with it. I heard a lot more about Polish immigrants than I did about Muslims.
I'm sure some Leave voters were worried about the Muslim horde heading their way, but nothing I've seen/read/heard about the Brexit referendum suggests that this was a prime motivating factor among Leave voters.
You appear to be wrong about this. The Rotherham scandal involved 1400 children who were sexually abused over a 16-year period by British citizens of primarily Pakistani ancestry but who were 100% Muslims. This is from Wikipedia's main article:
Widespread organised child sexual abuse took place in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, between 1997 and 2013. Local investigations into the abuse began in 1999, although some reports were never finalised or made public by the authorities. In 2010, five men of Pakistani heritage were found guilty of a series of sexual offences against girls as young as twelve. A subsequent investigation by The Times reported that the child sex exploitation was much more widespread, and the Home Affairs Select Committee criticised the South Yorkshire Police force and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council for their handling of the abuse.
An independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in the town, led by Professor Alexis Jay, was established in 2013 for Rotherham Council. The inquiry's initial report, published on 26 August 2014, condemned the failure of the authorities in Rotherham to act effectively against the abuse and even, in some cases, to acknowledge that it was taking place. The report estimated that 1,400 children had been sexually abused in the town between 1997 and 2013, predominantly by gangs of British-Pakistani men. Abuses described included abduction, rape, torture and sex trafficking of children.
Members of the British-Pakistani Muslim community condemned both the sexual abuse and the fact that it had been covered up for fear of "giving oxygen" to racism. The leader of Rotherham Borough Council, Roger Stone, resigned, as did the council's Chief Executive, Martin Kimber, and the director of children's services, Joyce Thacker. Shaun Wright, the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for South Yorkshire who had been a Labour councillor in charge of child safety at the council, stood down on 16 September, after initially refusing demands that he should do so. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, blamed the failure of the authorities in Rotherham on "institutionalised political correctness", and Denis MacShane, the former MP for Rotherham during the period covered by the report, admitted that he had been "guilty of doing too little" to investigate the extent of the sex crimes being committed in his constituency.
The complete article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandalMuslim men whose offenses "included abduction, rape, torture and sex trafficking of children", and were largely UK citizens. Given a PC pass by the liberal press and the Labour Party members. Then - in the eyes of the average Briton - things again got worse when the UK agreed to absorb Syrian refugees - over 3 million of them.
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/23/12005814/brexit-eu-referendum-immigrants I believe it was the single largest cause of the Brexit being approved. Just as when Donald Trump appeals to those voters who want to enforce this nation's borders, he'll beat an establishment candidate like HRC.
What this is about in this country is the party of Political Correctness - the Democrats - looks to new immigrants, legal and illegal, as it's new constituency. Without a constant flood of new immigrants, they cannot win any national office - because the Republicans have the advantage that as people age, most turn more conservative, and many lifelong Democrats become Republicans late in life. Now the Baby Boomers are the problem, just as they represented a "progressive opportunity" in the 1960's and 1970's.
For that reason, large numbers of Democrats really do want completely open borders. Even though the illegals number in the tens of millions already. If the new arrivals can't vote, their children will.
This calculation on the part of Democrats is pragmatic, cold-blooded, and completely correct arithmetic.