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Survey: UK is one of the least racist countries in the world

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April 27, 2023 - 7:15am

The UK is one of the least racist countries in the world, according to a massive new global study, with just 2% of Britons feeling uncomfortable about the idea of living next door to somebody of a different race. Asking whether someone would be happy living next to someone of a different race is one of the traditional ways that researchers measure racism. The data also shows that the British are amongst the most accepting countries in the world. In addition, the nation is among the highest-ranking for tolerance of gay people and immigrants.

The analysis from the Policy Institute at King’s College London, forming part of the World Values Survey (WVS), compared two dozen countries to judge global standards of trust and “acceptance of the people who live alongside us”. The proportion of Britons uncomfortable about living next door to somebody of a different ethnic background has gone down by eight percentage points from 10% in 1981 to 2% today, and now only Brazil and Sweden score lower (both 1%, essentially tied within the margin of error). Meanwhile, developed European countries like Italy and Spain score noticeably higher (12% and 13% respectively), with the least tolerant country on the continent being Greece, where almost a quarter (24%) of respondents would not want a neighbour of a different race.

 

Who would you NOT want to have as a neighbour? (%)

Source: The Policy Institute/World Values Survey

Britain has also come from behind to overtake the rest of the Anglosphere when it comes to racial tolerance. Since 1981, the United States has only gone down by five percentage points and Australia by two while Canada’s tolerance has, in the last forty years, actually risen, with a present-day figure of 4%. 

Views on racial difference have softened across generations, too. In 1981, 13% of the pre-war generation and 7% of baby boomers said they would not like to live next to somebody of a different race; the proportion for both groups is now 2%. Indeed, no age bracket scores more than 2% on the question, while less than 1% of Generation Z, the youngest category measured, object to ethnically diverse neighbours.

The overall acceptance of religious minorities is even more striking: just 1% of Britons would not want to live next door to someone of a different faith. Regardless of race or creed, the UK population is generally trustworthy of the people around them, with 84% trusting their neighbours — fourth in the WVS table behind Norway, Sweden and Egypt. Mexico (50%) was the only country surveyed in which there was not a majority in support of their neighbourhood. While Britain’s trust level has risen from 78% in 2005, the US’s fell from 80% to 72% between 2006 and 2017. 

Source: The Policy Institute/World Values Survey

The King’s study comes months after a UN working group claimed that ethnic minorities in Britain are “living in fear” as a result of systemic racism, and just two weeks after a separate report detailed that the UK is “not close to being a racially just society”. This new report provides a dramatic counterpoint, suggesting that Britain is, overall, a more welcoming place than its critics might suggest.


is UnHerd’s Deputy Editor, Newsroom.

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Andrew Buckley
Andrew Buckley
1 year ago

Oh dear. This will upset quite a few politicians and various activists/influencers (sic).

Arkadian X
Arkadian X
1 year ago
Reply to  Andrew Buckley

I am sure it will be said that this report was written by some blatant racist.

david barlow
david barlow
1 year ago
Reply to  Arkadian X

Naw, you’re not up with the words on the street. Try racial gatekeepers, bounty bars, coconuts.

david barlow
david barlow
1 year ago
Reply to  Arkadian X

Naw, you’re not up with the words on the street. Try racial gatekeepers, bounty bars, coconuts.

Yana Way
Yana Way
1 year ago
Reply to  Andrew Buckley

No. Sadly, they will just pretend this does not exist.

Arkadian X
Arkadian X
1 year ago
Reply to  Andrew Buckley

I am sure it will be said that this report was written by some blatant racist.

Yana Way
Yana Way
1 year ago
Reply to  Andrew Buckley

No. Sadly, they will just pretend this does not exist.

Andrew Buckley
Andrew Buckley
1 year ago

Oh dear. This will upset quite a few politicians and various activists/influencers (sic).

N Satori
N Satori
1 year ago

The King’s College survey will carry no weight with our activist elite. The link in the final paragraph will take you to a Guardian page much more in line with their world view. It’s filled with data ‘proving’ that Britain is still a racist society in desperate need of a good dose of social engineering. The data has been gleaned from familiar activist-riddled sources of course: The Runnymede Trust and Bristol University.

David McKee
David McKee
1 year ago
Reply to  N Satori

It is worth spending a little time reading the Bristol report. It is available here (https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ethnic-inequalities-in-a-time-of-crisis). It is open access, so you can read every word. The question asked was had the respondent experienced racial attack before the pandemic. No timeframe (eg last five years before the pandemic) was mentioned. So if an elderly man had “Go home, N****r” just once in the 1960s, then that was noted.
The point is that the researchers could not have set the bar any lower if they had tried. You could repeat the exercise, by asking people if they had ever experienced dangerous driving on the motorway, even just once; then you could create the impression that our motorways are deathtraps, filled with lunatic drivers.
But I encourage readers to use the link above and judge for themselves.

N Satori
N Satori
1 year ago
Reply to  David McKee

Reminds me of how the ever-widening definition of domestic abuse creates the impression that a huge number of men are wife-beaters (of some sort or another).
The object of such studies is not to determine the truth but to create evidence to back up the prejudicial notion that society is corrupt and immoral.

j watson
j watson
1 year ago
Reply to  N Satori

And on this ‘ever widening definition of domestic abuse’ would you care to give an example so all the female readers can see, and maybe even comment?

Frank Carney
Frank Carney
1 year ago
Reply to  j watson

How about so that everybody can comment?

I am reminded of the expansion of the Australian definition of domestic abuse a few years ago to include door slamming and walking out of the house. The latter of course is something primarily men do in domestic disputes…and now it’s evidence of abuse.

Geoff Cooper
Geoff Cooper
1 year ago
Reply to  Frank Carney

Of course, do the responsible thing and remove yourself from the situation, breath, cool down, don’t let your anger get the better of you, this is what decent men do in such situations but now they’re defining it as abuse? Heaven help us!

Geoff Cooper
Geoff Cooper
1 year ago
Reply to  Frank Carney

Of course, do the responsible thing and remove yourself from the situation, breath, cool down, don’t let your anger get the better of you, this is what decent men do in such situations but now they’re defining it as abuse? Heaven help us!

Frank Carney
Frank Carney
1 year ago
Reply to  j watson

How about so that everybody can comment?

I am reminded of the expansion of the Australian definition of domestic abuse a few years ago to include door slamming and walking out of the house. The latter of course is something primarily men do in domestic disputes…and now it’s evidence of abuse.

j watson
j watson
1 year ago
Reply to  N Satori

And on this ‘ever widening definition of domestic abuse’ would you care to give an example so all the female readers can see, and maybe even comment?

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago
Reply to  David McKee

Has such a survey been carried out in African and Islamic countries to identify their warm welcome and integration of white, Christian, Jewish and Hindu peoples? Do they read the news, appear on TV advertisements, work as politicians and/ or in Government? If not, perhaps someone out there can explain why not?… or perhaps get arrested and charged, and convicted on no independent evidence of a hate crime?

N Satori
N Satori
1 year ago
Reply to  David McKee

Reminds me of how the ever-widening definition of domestic abuse creates the impression that a huge number of men are wife-beaters (of some sort or another).
The object of such studies is not to determine the truth but to create evidence to back up the prejudicial notion that society is corrupt and immoral.

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago
Reply to  David McKee

Has such a survey been carried out in African and Islamic countries to identify their warm welcome and integration of white, Christian, Jewish and Hindu peoples? Do they read the news, appear on TV advertisements, work as politicians and/ or in Government? If not, perhaps someone out there can explain why not?… or perhaps get arrested and charged, and convicted on no independent evidence of a hate crime?

David McKee
David McKee
1 year ago
Reply to  N Satori

It is worth spending a little time reading the Bristol report. It is available here (https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ethnic-inequalities-in-a-time-of-crisis). It is open access, so you can read every word. The question asked was had the respondent experienced racial attack before the pandemic. No timeframe (eg last five years before the pandemic) was mentioned. So if an elderly man had “Go home, N****r” just once in the 1960s, then that was noted.
The point is that the researchers could not have set the bar any lower if they had tried. You could repeat the exercise, by asking people if they had ever experienced dangerous driving on the motorway, even just once; then you could create the impression that our motorways are deathtraps, filled with lunatic drivers.
But I encourage readers to use the link above and judge for themselves.

N Satori
N Satori
1 year ago

The King’s College survey will carry no weight with our activist elite. The link in the final paragraph will take you to a Guardian page much more in line with their world view. It’s filled with data ‘proving’ that Britain is still a racist society in desperate need of a good dose of social engineering. The data has been gleaned from familiar activist-riddled sources of course: The Runnymede Trust and Bristol University.

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago

How about the fact that the indigenous population actually lives in fear, that they are no longer allowed to express, that they are having large parts of their country taken over by cultures who have no respect for the indigenous people, but who are protected by laws and rights passed by British governments, that give them what are effectively superior rights and freedoms, and that many of the immigrants wish to see a Britain that will subsume to their culture and religious identity, and are using insurgence war and violence all over the African continent to achieve that aim, and terrorism elsewhere in the world? paranoia?… or provable fact?

j watson
j watson
1 year ago

Err think you jumped to the ‘fire and brimstone’ stuff bit quick there NST and missed the Survey conclusion. British public are pretty chilled out about living next door to someone from different background and culture. Not exactly hiding in the cellar.

j watson
j watson
1 year ago

Err think you jumped to the ‘fire and brimstone’ stuff bit quick there NST and missed the Survey conclusion. British public are pretty chilled out about living next door to someone from different background and culture. Not exactly hiding in the cellar.

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago

How about the fact that the indigenous population actually lives in fear, that they are no longer allowed to express, that they are having large parts of their country taken over by cultures who have no respect for the indigenous people, but who are protected by laws and rights passed by British governments, that give them what are effectively superior rights and freedoms, and that many of the immigrants wish to see a Britain that will subsume to their culture and religious identity, and are using insurgence war and violence all over the African continent to achieve that aim, and terrorism elsewhere in the world? paranoia?… or provable fact?

Linda Hutchinson
Linda Hutchinson
1 year ago

This is so annoying, I’ve made my mind up, so why do you keep confusing me by presenting “alternative” facts?

Linda Hutchinson
Linda Hutchinson
1 year ago

This is so annoying, I’ve made my mind up, so why do you keep confusing me by presenting “alternative” facts?

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago

What about the minorities who used to enjoy Hunting? What about Old Etonians and so called ” toffs” who can be abused and insulted verbally and in print? What about the old aristocracy who were banned from The Upper House? So it is perfectly acceptable to pillory, abuse, and ridicule a small section of society, who through no fault of their own were born into some privelige, and openly express hatred, and dislike of them? to mock their accents and the way that they dress?

Fortunately, they dont care, but all I am attempting to illustrate is that the bare faced rank hypocricy that festers in nu britain, not least driven by emerald green faced envy, is almost funny.

Charles Stanhope
Charles Stanhope
1 year ago

Not to mention dog fighting, badger baiting and countless other age old ‘country pursuits!

However given the antics of the Provost and Headmaster of Eton in recent years, there is definitely a ‘case to answer’.

j watson
j watson
1 year ago

But NST, you are missing the point – most of these Toffs are into a bit of S&M submission. It’s ingrained from prep-school. They’d pay for it at weekends anyway.

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago
Reply to  j watson

oik…

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago
Reply to  j watson

oik…

Charles Stanhope
Charles Stanhope
1 year ago

Not to mention dog fighting, badger baiting and countless other age old ‘country pursuits!

However given the antics of the Provost and Headmaster of Eton in recent years, there is definitely a ‘case to answer’.

j watson
j watson
1 year ago

But NST, you are missing the point – most of these Toffs are into a bit of S&M submission. It’s ingrained from prep-school. They’d pay for it at weekends anyway.

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago

What about the minorities who used to enjoy Hunting? What about Old Etonians and so called ” toffs” who can be abused and insulted verbally and in print? What about the old aristocracy who were banned from The Upper House? So it is perfectly acceptable to pillory, abuse, and ridicule a small section of society, who through no fault of their own were born into some privelige, and openly express hatred, and dislike of them? to mock their accents and the way that they dress?

Fortunately, they dont care, but all I am attempting to illustrate is that the bare faced rank hypocricy that festers in nu britain, not least driven by emerald green faced envy, is almost funny.

Charles Stanhope
Charles Stanhope
1 year ago

Not for much longer.
We were warned eons ago by EP.

Charles Stanhope
Charles Stanhope
1 year ago

Not for much longer.
We were warned eons ago by EP.

Peter Roberts
Peter Roberts
1 year ago

There is’nt a country without racism,even in mono cultures ,even the slightest difference can trigger it,even if those differences can not be noticed by outsiders…

Peter Roberts
Peter Roberts
1 year ago

There is’nt a country without racism,even in mono cultures ,even the slightest difference can trigger it,even if those differences can not be noticed by outsiders…

Gordon Arta
Gordon Arta
1 year ago

This report simply confirms that facts are tools of white supremacy, designed to oppress minorities. And it threatens thousands of jobs in the race industry. Reports should be cancelled.

Gordon Arta
Gordon Arta
1 year ago

This report simply confirms that facts are tools of white supremacy, designed to oppress minorities. And it threatens thousands of jobs in the race industry. Reports should be cancelled.

Nuala Rosher
Nuala Rosher
1 year ago

Blacks used to complain they didnt see themselves on screen. Now it is the opposite and every ad portrays a multiracial couple. White people dont see themselves.

Nuala Rosher
Nuala Rosher
1 year ago

Blacks used to complain they didnt see themselves on screen. Now it is the opposite and every ad portrays a multiracial couple. White people dont see themselves.

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago

Let us look at some of the things that some over the last 20 years, may call progress? Armed police, Downing st behind gates and armed police, airport security and searches, and more armed police, anti terrorist security outside our Parliament, domestic terrorist attacks, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan… what is the common denominator?

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago

Let us look at some of the things that some over the last 20 years, may call progress? Armed police, Downing st behind gates and armed police, airport security and searches, and more armed police, anti terrorist security outside our Parliament, domestic terrorist attacks, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan… what is the common denominator?

Ian Barton
Ian Barton
1 year ago

Diana Abbot would be furious with this report if she could understand the statistics.

Ian Barton
Ian Barton
1 year ago

Diana Abbot would be furious with this report if she could understand the statistics.

brian millar
brian millar
1 year ago

Why did the UK spike upwards in about 1997?

brian millar
brian millar
1 year ago

Why did the UK spike upwards in about 1997?

Frank McCusker
Frank McCusker
1 year ago

This accords with my very positive experiences as an N. Irish person (from the terrorist community) living in England (Midlands, Yorkshire and London) for most of the 1990s. In my lived experience, British everyday culture is extremely tolerant, and good humoured. Just good fun! People generally prefer banter, and if a conversation in a pub is becoming too “heavy”, someone will always take the p, and steer things back on a more light-hearted track. It’s a lovely culture. I only have great memories of my time in England. By contrast, the first time I went to New York, whilst I enjoyed the city itself very much, the racial tension there was palpable, and was something that 10 years living in Britain had not prepared me for. See my blog on “The New Apartheid”:
https://ayenaw.com/2021/10/10/the-new-apartheid/  

Frank McCusker
Frank McCusker
1 year ago

This accords with my very positive experiences as an N. Irish person (from the terrorist community) living in England (Midlands, Yorkshire and London) for most of the 1990s. In my lived experience, British everyday culture is extremely tolerant, and good humoured. Just good fun! People generally prefer banter, and if a conversation in a pub is becoming too “heavy”, someone will always take the p, and steer things back on a more light-hearted track. It’s a lovely culture. I only have great memories of my time in England. By contrast, the first time I went to New York, whilst I enjoyed the city itself very much, the racial tension there was palpable, and was something that 10 years living in Britain had not prepared me for. See my blog on “The New Apartheid”:
https://ayenaw.com/2021/10/10/the-new-apartheid/  

John Kimon
John Kimon
1 year ago

Maybe this ‘tolerance’ is a sign of decline.

Last edited 1 year ago by John Kimon
John Kimon
John Kimon
1 year ago

Maybe this ‘tolerance’ is a sign of decline.

Last edited 1 year ago by John Kimon
j watson
j watson
1 year ago

Useful counter weight to some of the more outlandish claims of racial bias in modern Britain. We all know things are better than when we were kids and casual awful racism was common. A credit to our Nation, albeit with a few things we can still do better.
Nonetheless having gone through the report it does depend on how questions are phrased and how things are defined. Now if the UnHerd usual commentariat were selectively polled I wonder if we’d hold to the 2% too?
And given the key conclusions – folks are pretty chilled about who lives next door regardless of background and culture – suggestive we’ll have no problem absorbing and getting comfortable with a gradual change in demographic going forward (not more in total just a change in make-up).
Ah but now there’s uproar that one could suggest that. Thus is it really 2%, or just an UnHerd silo that might buck the trend?

Last edited 1 year ago by j watson
N Satori
N Satori
1 year ago
Reply to  j watson

I might have known you’d have to put your oar in Watson. By the way, don’t you qualify as one of UnHerd’s usual commentariat? Not a day goes by without one of your schoolmasterly contributions such as this choice extract:

We all know things are better than when we were kids and casual awful racism was common. A credit to our Nation, albeit with a few things we can still do better.

You forgot to add: “We must all pull our socks up and there’s no room for complacency”.

j watson
j watson
1 year ago
Reply to  N Satori

V glad you’re paying attention at the back of class there NS. Will keep giving you the homework.

Last edited 1 year ago by j watson
j watson
j watson
1 year ago
Reply to  N Satori

V glad you’re paying attention at the back of class there NS. Will keep giving you the homework.

Last edited 1 year ago by j watson
N Satori
N Satori
1 year ago
Reply to  j watson

I might have known you’d have to put your oar in Watson. By the way, don’t you qualify as one of UnHerd’s usual commentariat? Not a day goes by without one of your schoolmasterly contributions such as this choice extract:

We all know things are better than when we were kids and casual awful racism was common. A credit to our Nation, albeit with a few things we can still do better.

You forgot to add: “We must all pull our socks up and there’s no room for complacency”.

j watson
j watson
1 year ago

Useful counter weight to some of the more outlandish claims of racial bias in modern Britain. We all know things are better than when we were kids and casual awful racism was common. A credit to our Nation, albeit with a few things we can still do better.
Nonetheless having gone through the report it does depend on how questions are phrased and how things are defined. Now if the UnHerd usual commentariat were selectively polled I wonder if we’d hold to the 2% too?
And given the key conclusions – folks are pretty chilled about who lives next door regardless of background and culture – suggestive we’ll have no problem absorbing and getting comfortable with a gradual change in demographic going forward (not more in total just a change in make-up).
Ah but now there’s uproar that one could suggest that. Thus is it really 2%, or just an UnHerd silo that might buck the trend?

Last edited 1 year ago by j watson
Walter Schwager
Walter Schwager
1 year ago

So what explains Brexit?

Linda Hutchinson
Linda Hutchinson
1 year ago

Indeed, obviously nothing to do with racism. Perhaps it could have been something else like a desire to have some sort of democratic accountability – who knows?

j watson
j watson
1 year ago

It was because we wanted to be able to have as many E numbers in our Prawn cocktail crisps as we jolly well felt like and they can stick those EU rules where the Sun don’t shine…err even if we’d written them.
Nonetheless Vote Leave made sure it covered all bases with the rubbish about 70 million Turks coming tomorrow and influx of Syrian refugees, because it did want any racists to vote for them even if that’s just a small v stupid minority.

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago

what exactly IS racism? please elaborate?

j watson
j watson
1 year ago

It was because we wanted to be able to have as many E numbers in our Prawn cocktail crisps as we jolly well felt like and they can stick those EU rules where the Sun don’t shine…err even if we’d written them.
Nonetheless Vote Leave made sure it covered all bases with the rubbish about 70 million Turks coming tomorrow and influx of Syrian refugees, because it did want any racists to vote for them even if that’s just a small v stupid minority.

Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago

what exactly IS racism? please elaborate?

Jon Morrow
Jon Morrow
1 year ago

Something else, obviously.

rob drummond
rob drummond
1 year ago

Why would BREXIT have been a racist vote? – perhapds you are confusing it with somehtign else.

Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  rob drummond

There was an element of the campaign to curb the free movement of predominantly white people from other EU countries, so absolutely nothing to do with racism. Obviously yet again the truth is inconvenient to those who wanted to paint leave voters as old, stupid and racist so they could be justified in going against the democratically expressed will of the people – old, stupid, racist and anyone else who does not agree with what the elite says is best for them really should not have the vote at all.

Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  rob drummond

There was an element of the campaign to curb the free movement of predominantly white people from other EU countries, so absolutely nothing to do with racism. Obviously yet again the truth is inconvenient to those who wanted to paint leave voters as old, stupid and racist so they could be justified in going against the democratically expressed will of the people – old, stupid, racist and anyone else who does not agree with what the elite says is best for them really should not have the vote at all.

Martin Bollis
Martin Bollis
1 year ago

Assuming anti immigration sentiment was one element of the vote, is it the same thing as racism?

Antipathy to a significant influx of largely unskilled and semi skilled workers driving down wages in lower income groups, driving up rent, and overwhelming public services, would seem reasonable objections from an indigenous population.

Why hang a pejorative tag on a rational reaction?

Russell Sharpe
Russell Sharpe
1 year ago

So what explains Brexit?
Scepticism of and/or disenchantment with the EU and a desire for more democratic accountability, I imagine. And possibly a distaste for the much higher levels of racism characteristic of so many EU countries such as France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Poland (see the charts above).

Last edited 1 year ago by Russell Sharpe
Peter Roberts
Peter Roberts
1 year ago
Reply to  Russell Sharpe

The UK will Never get credit,there will always be bullhorns on the left crying stuff like institutionalised racism,when the Truth is mainland Europe is considerably More racist than the UK..p.s.It’s interesting to look at the EU parliament ,which is whiter than a klan rally,despite members whom like Britain are former colonial powers such as France ,Spain and the Netherlands ,but have few ethnics in either their respective goverments and in the EU parliament,even though France has a sizable Arab and African populace,ironically there were more brown and black faces in the EU parliament when the Brexit party was there..

Last edited 1 year ago by Peter Roberts
Peter Roberts
Peter Roberts
1 year ago
Reply to  Russell Sharpe

The UK will Never get credit,there will always be bullhorns on the left crying stuff like institutionalised racism,when the Truth is mainland Europe is considerably More racist than the UK..p.s.It’s interesting to look at the EU parliament ,which is whiter than a klan rally,despite members whom like Britain are former colonial powers such as France ,Spain and the Netherlands ,but have few ethnics in either their respective goverments and in the EU parliament,even though France has a sizable Arab and African populace,ironically there were more brown and black faces in the EU parliament when the Brexit party was there..

Last edited 1 year ago by Peter Roberts
Matt M
Matt M
1 year ago

The intelligence, political sophistication, courage and patriotism of the British public.

Last edited 1 year ago by Matt M
j watson
j watson
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt M

Followed by May, Bojo, Mad Liz and Rish!
Satire is not dead.

j watson
j watson
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt M

Followed by May, Bojo, Mad Liz and Rish!
Satire is not dead.

Gary Taylor
Gary Taylor
1 year ago

Cos you can welcome immigration without wishing for endless immigration.

j watson
j watson
1 year ago
Reply to  Gary Taylor

Yes you are right GT. And that is where the heart of the country almost certainly is

j watson
j watson
1 year ago
Reply to  Gary Taylor

Yes you are right GT. And that is where the heart of the country almost certainly is

Linda Hutchinson
Linda Hutchinson
1 year ago

Indeed, obviously nothing to do with racism. Perhaps it could have been something else like a desire to have some sort of democratic accountability – who knows?

Jon Morrow
Jon Morrow
1 year ago

Something else, obviously.

rob drummond
rob drummond
1 year ago

Why would BREXIT have been a racist vote? – perhapds you are confusing it with somehtign else.

Martin Bollis
Martin Bollis
1 year ago

Assuming anti immigration sentiment was one element of the vote, is it the same thing as racism?

Antipathy to a significant influx of largely unskilled and semi skilled workers driving down wages in lower income groups, driving up rent, and overwhelming public services, would seem reasonable objections from an indigenous population.

Why hang a pejorative tag on a rational reaction?

Russell Sharpe
Russell Sharpe
1 year ago

So what explains Brexit?
Scepticism of and/or disenchantment with the EU and a desire for more democratic accountability, I imagine. And possibly a distaste for the much higher levels of racism characteristic of so many EU countries such as France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Poland (see the charts above).

Last edited 1 year ago by Russell Sharpe
Matt M
Matt M
1 year ago

The intelligence, political sophistication, courage and patriotism of the British public.

Last edited 1 year ago by Matt M
Gary Taylor
Gary Taylor
1 year ago

Cos you can welcome immigration without wishing for endless immigration.

Walter Schwager
Walter Schwager
1 year ago

So what explains Brexit?