Is the UK now giving off strong Third World vibes?

The purpose of Brexit was to avoid the changes to offshore tax avoidance the EU were to address. It's not going to be a vote winner to point out to the hard of thinking that Brexit was going to benefit the extremely rich.

The Tories always sow division, it's an old English trick that is used to their advantage in Iraq, Northern Ireland, Kuwait, India, in fact anywhere they pulled out of they left the division they used as an excuse to "help" the chosen side.

So if you are going to sell something to make people worse off, then lies and racism targeted at the hard of thinking is a tried and tested technique.

A quick view of the garbage in the Mail, Britain's most popular tabloid rag provides an indication of the political acumen of the readership.

The East Europeans created jobs in the service sector. What drives down wages in the UK are zero hours contracts and jobs artificially subsidised because so many people claiming benefits in the UK are working.

I'm talking about the drop in the pound after Brexit and in particular its losses against the EU.

The day after the referendum everything brought into the UK cost more.

UK employees are not like Stonehenge, a fixed item only having an impact on the local environment.

I obviously cannot explain the situation to you, but let me put it this way I worked directly for UK and Irish companies throughout my career.

I have property and money in both countries.

I worked all over the world, with all nationalities, I know how market economics works too.

Maybe you got your ideas from the British gutter press, to be honest it sounds very much like it.

They lie, Brexit was sold on lies.

Eastern Europeans were a major asset to Britain, they are being replaced by none EU workers, but that does not get much mention in the Tory rags.

If you want to know how Britain is doing and how it works buy the Independent or Guardian and don't bother with the BBC.

It's funny since I arrived here with my new Irish passport after Brexit, people are constantly telling me how Brexit is still making Britain the land of opportunity and how the EU that I am still part of is depreciating or becoming a military force or breaking up or some such rubbish.

I act in accordance with my personal economics and experience, I do know a little of what I'm talking about.

How do you explain to a bunch of IQ zero's that the country has gone from 164,000 visas for foreign workers in 2016 to half a million this year and the Christmas rush for work has not even added to that figure yet.

You see the simple thing is when you have conned your muppets with lies in order to get them to vote for a self harming package, then you don't publicise the news that would shake their faith in racism, do you?

No it's because many that want to go speak English and have connections there.

If you look at Britain's history you will find that they were quite generous with their British nationality, providing all and sundry with the "honour" of citizenship.

That didn't of course become relevant until transport became cheap enough for Britain's commonwealth citizens to start "coming home" to see this paradise all their wealth was being shipped to.

The friends and relatives are still there, even though the passports were rapidly stopped.

Of course when you blow populations to smithereens, then I suppose there is a natural affinity for the bombers that spared you. I worked with an Iraqi in Birmingham, a brilliant person It was hard to understand how someone like him could be so nasty and selfish as to have oil under his feet. Asking to be blown to bits he was!

I never asked him why he was in England working as a colleague, I regret not finding out.

He was university educated and whatever his background he did say if he stayed in Iraq military service was compulsory. What a terrible waste killing each other seems?

It makes you wonder why there is so much enthusiasm for it :-(

He seemed happier with his electrical designs though, I think Saddam should have just donated some cash to the Tories and bought a knighthood or two like every other sleazy lowlife.

Was there recently thought standard of living didn’t seem great at all. People shabbily dressed and things looked poorly maintained . When I came back I could clearly see the difference. Know a few brexiteers who are very sorry now that they voted to leave. We look prosperous here in comparison though know we’re in no way perfect either. They do have a much better transport network than us though I’d say.

Sorry my use of the term "floodgates" was in comparison to the odd one or two "novelties" brought back to gawp at in the Victorian era.

I try not to be a racist or a bigot, but tribalism worked for the human race in a positive way for centuries so the trait is hard to shake. Alas it's an inbuilt switch that is so easily toggled by those that want to manipulate others.

How many people came to England never bothered me in the slightest. I still know more English people that I would happily see on a boat to Rwanda or someplace, than migrants.

I guess my mother was one of the 500,000. The best gift she ever gave me was the citizenship of this country. I think that knowing a little about the history of my ancestors provides me with a different perspective of Britain's place in the world.

I used to frequent a few English museums and they had a far more candid expose of Britains past than the more popular schoolbook versions.

So despite being born in England and spending the best part of a lifetime there, I never did quite see people migrating to England as "them" somehow.

I think anyone looking back on the history of this country would find it difficult to condone Britain's approach to refugees and asylum seekers.

They are a tribal bunch though. I recall two football teams fans entering a pub in Dublin years back. That wouldn't happen in my town. The home and away supporters were separated with different pubs and police steering them around town and back to the bus and train stations after the match.

Not many Brits can afford their parliamentary democracy, in fact most don't contribute to the Tories at all.