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On the UK left's Pavlovian responses: to assume that demanding Brexit be respected, that working class concerns be acknowledged or that immigration be restricted means supporting notion of a white-only working class or discriminating against ethnic minorities is preposterous. 1/3
Especially if we take into account that support for Brexit was rather high among certain ethnic groups (Indians for example) and that all ethnic minorities support controlled or reduced immigration. There is no support for open borders at any level. 2/3
Perhaps a good starting point for Labour to win back the heartlands *and* defend ethnic minority communities would be to stop projecting one's own values and ideas (on Brexit, immigration etc.) upon the latter. 3/3
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