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Xenophobic Brexit: Unfounded liberal propaganda

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Liberal and progressive politicians love to make fake charges of hatred when anyone objects to their policies. They believe they are smarter than everyone else so there cannot be a logical disagreement to one of their ideas; opposition must be based on hatred. That philosophy is behind the blaming of last week’s pro-Brexit vote in Great Britain on racism and xenophobia.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, for example, said the vote to leave the EU was prompted by “very very xenophobic, anti-immigrant, very populist, nationalist, white identity politics.” Her views were echoed by many in the liberal media. The truth is, the only thing making the Brexit vote a result of bigotry are the claims of the mainstream media and liberal politicians.

According to the news site Vox, the number one reason for the Brexit result was the desire by British voters to maintain sovereignty over their own economy. 

Over the years, the European Union has increased its control over member country economies. In areas where the EU has been granted authority like competition policy, agriculture, and copyright and patent law, EU rules override national laws. 

Let’s face it, to some it’s bad enough when one’s own country’s big government is establishing too much control over people’s lives. But when the unelected bureaucracy controlling their lives is a panel of bureaucrats sitting in Brussels there is a total disconnect between British voters and EU administrators, making their decisions even more unpopular. 

Former London Mayor Boris Johnson, a Brexit supporter put it this way in an op-ed in the The Telegraph newspaper: “Sometimes these EU rules sound simply ludicrous, like the rule that you can’t recycle a teabag, or that children under eight cannot blow up balloons, or the limits on the power of vacuum cleaners. Sometimes they can be truly infuriating – like the time I discovered, in 2013, that there was nothing we could do to bring in better-designed cab windows for trucks, to stop cyclists being crushed. It had to be done at a European level, and the French were opposed.”

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