nigel perhaps you move in circles where people can rationalise away their reasons for voting brexit with spurious worries about expanding EU or vacuous 'sovereignty' Where i live in west cumbria everyone i talk to on the subject will talk about foreigners and usually 'muslims' They do not have the sophisticated, learned excuses of shy racists, or feel the need to disguise their views like pale,sick tories do.   

get real, the brexit vote was won as a result of racism peddled by newspapers, ukip and the tories.