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You no have to be islander for don't trust politician bureaucrats who serve the highest point of power, but it shouldn't be that the reason for getting confused and vote for that kind of power.
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Wut?
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I meant that as islanders we mistrust the concept of being told what to do by bureaucrats in mainland Europe. It's probably got something to do with the Second World War and the perception that we won it.
Fact is, a lot of people don't like the idea of the free movement of labour within the EU and will believe the Daily Mail when it says x-number of Romanians are on their way over here to take our jobs, even when there aren't many jobs to take in the fist instance.
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That's what the (South African) guy at work can't get his head around.
I think the point is that people in poverty who used to vote Labour now vote Tory because they've conflated Labour with mass immigration and the free movement of labour within the EU. They've bought the dummy that Farage et al sold to them.
There's also an instinctive distrust of the EU amongst us Brits; our 'islander' mentality.