America played a role in Britain's exit from EU
Supporting U.S. policies has come back to bite the British
June 29, 2016 | http://www.post-gazette.com/
By Dan Simpson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The
contribution of American policy to the catastrophic British vote last
Thursday to leave the European Union is indirect, but clear.
The
two main issues that propelled the British electorate to choose to exit
the EU were immigration and the state of the economy. On immigration,
the EU was held responsible for too many ethnically and religiously
different people coming into the United Kingdom, posing a threat to
British identity. On the economy, it was partly that those people
coming in were considered to be displacing non-different Britons from
their jobs, and, more fundamentally, that the economy of the United
Kingdom still had not recovered from the global recession that started
around 2008.http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/dan-simpson/2016/06/29/Dan-Simpson-American-played-a-role-in-Britain-s-exit/stories/201606280017
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