This article (HERE) demonstrates the massive variation in the reasoning behind the leave vote. The writer, a third generation immigrant from India, wants to cut immigration from Europe but increase it from the rest of the world, presumably from India. I am not sure how this would be received in some parts of the country that voted to leave to reduce immigration.
There is an almighty row coming up between those who voted leave to "control" immigration and those wanting to "reduce" immigration. For control read the same numbers but from different parts of the world. However, this is not the reason the article caught my eye. The final sentence is incredible to me. The writer claims Brexit is about making a Britain that is fair on immigration, trades globally and is outward looking. What on earth does she think we are at the moment?
We can take as many immigrants from outside the EU as we wish. We already trade globally but not as much as Germany does from inside the EU. And surely we are one of, if not the most outward looking country I know. So, we are already or could become all the things she dreams of inside the EU. She has voted for the most divisive, costly and damaging break up with decades of problems ahead to achieve the status quo!
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