King Kreole
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I didn't mean to insinuate that at all. There is obviously some xenophobia present, but more foundational is the continual lowering of the standard of living for the middle and lower class. Xenophobia is just a manifestation of economic discontent. The geographic divide between London (Remain) and the rest of the country is perfectly indicative of this dynamic. Just like in the US, this is a result of a policy of globalization that doesn't factor in wealth inequality. The people losing ground will only take it for so long. I actually believe the conventional left-right political paradigm is no longer applicable. It's now the left behinds and the globalists, and both sides are present in both left and right parties. Labour and Democrats are losing their traditional voter base in the working class because they've been left behind by the administrations of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. Tories and Republicans are facing insurrection campaigns from the left behinds in their own parties, UKIP and Tea Party/Trumpers respectively.This is good except like most mainstream politicians you keep dismissing immigration as matter of xenophobia, which it is, but real wages in both the us and the U.K. have stagnated
Trying to call people whose wages are stagnating due to a large influx of low skilled workers is a recipe for what happened in the uk
The people that benefit the most from globalization are the highly educated and the low skilled workers themselves who get to leave shytty countries, pretty much everybody else loses
Swarby is right that this is blairs fault, Blair deliberately allowed a huge influx of low skilled workers from Eastern Europe even tho it wasn't required by the eu treaty
Obama and mainstream republicans are trying to do a similar thing here and that is why trump came out of nowhere
I'm personally pro globalization and pro free trade but I also realize that immigration causes wage stagnation and social conflict, politicians need to understand this
Gonna be a hot summer.




