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For all those people that say the above reasons for voting are not representative of the general weight of the leave vote, here it is (unsurprisingly) in black and white. Having the username align with the stereotype is just a nice bonus, I suppose.

Good luck with the long term strategy. It might be a shock for you to hear it, but your expectations as a result of a leave vote are insanely misguided. Brexit and the EU is small fry compared with what globalisation (already here), and automation is doing, and will continue to do to those communities. It's over already. Same old story – adapt or die. Most people can't, so that's the reality we're in.

What's the one thing cheaper than migrant labour? AI and automated services. Driverless cars. Robotic deliveries. What's the main thing propping up the UK employment rate? The gig economy. Uber. Deliveroo. Say bye bye to those over the next 20 years. Immigration is, more or less, a red herring in an increasingly Globalised and automated global economy.

By the way I'm not saying this is 'right', or advocating for it, or even saying it's 'progress', I'm just saying that is what it is. And there is literally nothing you can do about it. If you voted out because of immigration and to try to stop change, it's meaningless. You'll die an even more unhappy man.

'So my community doesn't change from its current identity' – this made me chuckle. Change has always happened. Just look at the last 200 years. The difference is, even during the industrial revolution, change happened very gradually. Nowadays, what used to take 10 years takes 1. And that's when people start to notice. However, this change will happen faster and more disruptively than ever before, and it will happen regardless of in or out of the EU. I also find the less immigration = less change argument even more ridiculous seeing as net immigration is not expected to decrease by anywhere near as much as would be required to have the kind of effect you voted for.

As for the protest vote, that's your right, but really? Did you expect that it would actually make a difference in the way you wanted it to? I personally voted on the limited facts that were available to me at the time, rather than using one of the most important votes in our history as some form of personal vendetta.

Maybe next time use that dissent to organise a movement, galvanise the masses and really start to make a difference. As violent as they are, the gilets jaunes are a good example of what might be to come when jobs start disappearing.

Where we're heading will be much like the end of the industrial era and the resulting wasteland that it created in most mining communities, mainly in the midlands and the north. The same will happen all over again. Them be the breaks.

For all those people that say the above reasons for voting are not representative of the general weight of the leave vote, here it is (unsurprisingly) in black and white. Having the username align with the stereotype is just a nice bonus, I suppose.

Good luck with the long term strategy. It might be a shock for you to hear it, but your expectations as a result of a leave vote are insanely misguided. Brexit and the EU is small fry compared with what globalisation (already here), and automation is doing, and will continue to do to those communities. It's over already. Same old story – adapt or die. Most people can't, so that's the reality we're in.

What's the one thing cheaper than migrant labour? AI and automated services. Driverless cars. Robotic deliveries. What's the main thing propping up the UK employment rate? The gig economy. Uber. Deliveroo. Say bye bye to those over the next 20 years. Immigration is, more or less, a red herring in an increasingly Globalised and automated global economy.

By the way I'm not saying this is 'right', or advocating for it, or even saying it's 'progress', I'm just saying that is what it is. And there is literally nothing you can do about it. If you voted out because of immigration and to try to stop change, it's meaningless. You'll die an even more unhappy man.

'So my community doesn't change from its current identity' – this made me chuckle. Change has always happened. Just look at the last 200 years. The difference is, even during the industrial revolution, change happened very gradually. Nowadays, what used to take 10 years takes 1. And that's when people start to notice. However, this change will happen faster and more disruptively than ever before, and it will happen regardless of in or out of the EU. I also find the less immigration = less change argument even more ridiculous seeing as net immigration is not expected to decrease by anywhere near as much as would be required to have the kind of effect you voted for.

As for the protest vote, that's your right, but really? Did you expect that it would actually make a difference in the way you wanted it to? I personally voted on the limited facts that were available to me at the time, rather than using one of the most important votes in our history as some form of personal vendetta.

Maybe next time use that dissent to organise a movement, galvanise the masses and really start to make a difference. As violent as they are, the gilets jaunes are a good example of what might be to come when jobs start disappearing.

Where we're heading will be much like the end of the industrial era and the resulting wasteland that it created in most mining communities, mainly in the midlands and the north. The same will happen all over again. Them be the breaks.

Yes just look at the last 200 years, we have never had so much debt and crime. The main debt came from owing the USA for a war against the Germans which took us from number one richest country to 6th. Now look at the Germans! Wanting an army and they wonder why we object.
Look at crime in London, it's never been so bad!! I hope your enjoying the now, I prefurd the before I guess so did most who voted leave.

I agree with a lot of what you say about automation. However if we are going to lose many low wage unskilled jobs to technology it doesn't make sense to import large numbers of unskilled workers.

It does make sense to have an immigration policy that identifies skill gaps in the market.

But apart from that we have a bright future.

Sadly I think a lot of what you say will happen. Its why politicians have to start addressing this soon manage the change rather than wait until it happens all at once. The last time we had a major change in the economy was in the 1980's a lot of people lost their change in a short space of time. The decline could have been managed better and over a longer period if we had started in the 1970's.