Rugoz wrote:The EU was simply too ideological/boneheaded when it comes to free movement.
No the problem was that the British political elite were united in their support for mass immigration and Turkish membership of the EU. Free movement of labour to under cut British wages and to fuel business growth was the one thing about the EU that most of the early Brexiteers really liked. The Remain campaign's argument was we are going to continue working night and day to get Turkey into the EU, but don't worry because France will block it. Most of the voters in the referendum saw through this worthless guarantee, because they knew that at some point France would really need something at which point the other pro Turkish member countries would use the movement of weakness to force France to accept Turkish membership.
Boris Johnson was just more honest and credible. He said, I like the rest of the elite am going to continue to push tirelessly for Turkish membership, but if you're out of the EU you won't have to suffer the consequences. The British government could easily have got curbs on EU immigration, but the cost is that they would have had to tackle non EU immigration. And that would have negated the main point of being in the EU for the British elite. We didn't enable mass immigration to be an EU member we became an EU member to enable mass immigration. It started at the end of World War II with the use of German slave labour. As soon as the German slave labour started winding down they started looking for other sources of labour and extra consumers.
But generally if people are unhappy with Brexit they should address their complaints to the Liberal Democrat party. They were the first major party to push for an in / out referendum. I don't think even UKIP were pushing for an in / out referendum back then.