IT will be very difficult for the British to deny racism was the main driving force behind the majority vote to leave the European Union (EU) in the recent referendum.
The influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe, with little respect for English culture, proved to be too much for the majority of British voters.
On June 23 Britons voted 52-48 percent in favour of leaving the EU.
According to a BBC report, soon after the result of the referendum, there was an alarming spate of racist incidents in the UK.
Our contributor from the UK cites cases of racial abuse where ethnic minorities are being reminded of success of the ‘Leave Campaign’.
“Get out of our country,” a woman migrant was recently taunted by a white British racist.
But this should not be seen as an isolated incident.
It won’t be surprising if these hate provocations by British racists against ethnic minorities soon degenerate into full-scale fatal xenophobic attacks.
After all, recently a white British Labour Party MP, Jo Cox, was murdered in broad daylight for supporting immigrants and the continued stay of Britain in the EU.
That’s the extent to which this hatred of ethnic minorities has gone.
No wonder Czech Minister Thomas Prouza has demanded a strong statement from the British government to pre-empt a potential catastrophe.
The British are not going to fool anyone by selling the sovereignty dummy.
Of course they are not impressed by instances where the European Court of Human Rights might override their courts’ ruling on immigrants.
That is if, according to them, sovereignty means unrestrained authority to do as they please with the unwanted immigrants.
Another feeble excuse for hating immigrants is that they are taking their jobs.
Yet in most cases, these are jobs the locals are not prepared to take.
Doesn’t this sound familiar with some of the causes of the recent deplorable xenophobic attacks in neighbouring South Africa.
However, we can see through the red herring.
We know, the ‘Leave Campaign’ was fuelled by EU laws which guaranteed free movement of Poles and other East Europeans into Britain.
As we know, the British had been used to immigrants from their former colonies who conformed to their culture acquired during colonisation.
They speak English and the British are content to play their condescending role as former slave-masters.
However, immigrants from the EU do not have that inferiority complex as they have never been subjected to British mental conditioning.
They have their own cultures which they value, and to them, English is just another foreign language.
The older British generation must have had nostalgic memories of the good old days of the British Empire when ‘Great’ Britain ruled the Commonwealth as they went to vote on June 24.
They were so drunk with hatred of the East European immigrants that they had no time to consider other implications of leaving the EU.
For a start, the economic repercussions are disastrous, with the British pound sinking to a 31-year low and markets losing trillions in stock value.
The British do not like this.
There is fear that while they might like to remain members of the EU single market and enjoy the benefits that go with it, they will remain uncompromising on the question of free movement of immigrants.
Before the British start negotiating their exit, the Poles and their East European partners have already warned that freedom enjoyed by EU members is a package deal.
“It’s four freedoms or no freedom,” according to Prouza, referring to the EU’s free movement of goods, services, people and capital.
So, because of racial hatred the British might have cut their nose to spite their face by voting to quit the EU.