I watched Question Time with growing incredulity last night as the Tory speaker said that her party was united around Brexit (I didn't notice which asylum it came from)
There seems no conception whatever of the damage this farce has done, not just to the future of Britain, but to society and democracy

Brexit was soled on the populist view that immigration was bad and refugees were a menace - the claims that got Enoch Powell kicked out of his party and placed him in a position where he could only get work from a sectarian extremist part.
The immediate result of the decision was spike in racist incidents in Britain - non Brits were being approached within days and asked "when are you going home"

Fanny-grabbing Trump, with his children's cages, his wall and his "bigger button" took advantage of the same populism and dragged the white robed hoodies from their swamps

Now we have boatloads of people fleeing wars we have helped facilitate, floating on the ocean, having been refused landing permission - thanks to the same populist view that immigration is evil

What a world to pass on to our kids, eh?
Jim Carroll