EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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NickCJ in reply to @mmccarthy

I don't want to be thinking that everyone who voted to leave was basically anti-immigration and has since been hiding behind paper thin alternative arguments

To me this is the tragedy of the whole thing. With my cynical hat on I think that Brexit could have been headed off in 2015 early in Cameron’s second term with some token concessions on freedom of movement. Only the looney ERG actually care about the sovereignty stuff as well, right?

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JWestland in reply to @NickCJ

He could have introduced registration for newly arrived EU furrin's and then start to enforce all EU rules (criminality checks, find work in 3 months etc...) not even any need for EU concessions.

And then advertise how much of a hard man he is...even so, would that have seen off Murdoch?

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NickCJ in reply to @JWestland

Cameron preferred not to take the economic pain of doing that and then gambled on a Remain win. Immigration has always been the emotive issue that the Sun/Mail used to drum up Leave support... some token ‘tough guy’ actions (rather than breached numerical targets) would have neutered that?

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