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Whether Brexit happens, whether it's smooth or rough, Soft Brexit or Hard Brexit, there will be a sour taste in our mouths long after it is wrapped up. Something has changed in this country, attitudes shifting, divisions cracking open. Or is it that nothing has really changed at all and actually Brexit has just cast light over the darkness, lifted the rock to show us what was hiding there that we tried denying for so long?A recent Channel 4 clip showed people in Barnsley who had voted Leave expressing their frustration with the slowness of the process, the fact that the immigrants were still here. They ranged from mildly typical British politeness in wishing these immigrants a dignified exit from the country they had made their homes for years, and others just wanting them all to go.Has this always been Britain? Fearful of immigrants, ferociously sceptical of the benefits produced by immigration? We can say this has been a recent phenomenon, a post-financial crash economic anxiety paralysing the entire country, stirred relentlessly by endless newspaper scaremongering about the illegal immigration invasion that was never coming. The irony in this being when the migrants go, everything could go with them.
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Brexit Has Lifted The Rock On Racism In Britain
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