I am completely baffled that people don't see 'racism' as part of Brexit, though I do accept that the ethnocentrism and anti-Europeanism which gave rise to the contemptuous and contemptible use of words like 'Grog' 'Eyetye' 'Dago' may not strictly speaking be "racist". Similar enough in many cases.

Jingoism is not a 'thick working class' thing, as sometimes implied; an academic historian tried to convince me the other week that the only thing the Victorians admired which was Italian was ancient Rome. So much for the quattrocento and the Renaissance then. The partner of the same person commented on the bad housing described in the novel about refugees in Italy in WW2 was that in England such housing would have been closed down. ANd this demented gibberish came from somebody who had been alive in WW2 and must remember Homes for Heros. Crackpot jingoism.