Originally Posted by Osem

... and since the UK has clearly become even more of a hotbed of ultra right wing hate crime and xenophobia since the Brexit vote, I expect we'll soon be seeing a mass exodus of foreigners from these shores before it's too late. Yes, they'll all be heading back to the mainland EU where there is no hate crime, no xenophobia, no right wing extremism and where there's a universal welcome to outsiders...

I do wonder sometimes at how the sort of unpleasant events and behaviour we see in the UK directed at certain minority/migrant groups are compared with the sort of behaviour which is evident across Europe which so many people here seem to turn a blind eye to when it suits their argument.