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People of Eastern European origin were used as scab labour, on the red tories watch, to undermine pay and conditions for UK based workers of whatever origin.
Which was a huge part of the anti-EU sentiment (in the Northern city I come from and lived in at the time) that led to brexit.
The bbc and billionaire owned media framed the debate as 'liberalism' (do they mean economic or social liberalism? Because they are two opposing things) against xenophobia, while omitting the stories of all of those people who had been hammered be their loss of pay and conditions. Framing and omission are the bbc's (and other nation state information operations') stocks in trade.
My guess is that it would take telling the blokes I grew up with "you're racist" about three time (for complaining about the huge reduction in their quality of life caused by the importation of cheap Eastern European labour), before they turn around and say "ok, fuck you, where is the racist party for me to follow then?"
The sad thing is this response suits the same billionaires and establishment figures that put Farage on tv every week on politics tv shows for years despite having no MP's in the first place.
"They do the jobs British people don't want to do". Actually we don't want anybody doing those jobs for that pay. If you've said that take a look at yourself. Think.