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contestgamer on 06 April 2018
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KrspaceT said:
contestgamer said:

Brexit isn't conservative. I know 24 year old progressive friends that voted to leave, because they didn't want all the immigrants flooding in. They're for free healthcare, tough gun laws, public campaign financing, etc etc, one position doesn't make you conservative.

Fear of Immigrants tends to be conservative. Fear is a Conservative attribute. Studies have shown that. 

And just because you have friends who voted like that and being generally liberal (must have had a bad day that day), doesn't make Brexit liberal. Brexit was pushed by blue collar and mining towns while being opposed by the large City London. 

Rural push versus liberal pushback, at least in England and Wales. That is a pattern of Conservationism versus Liberalism. 

This changes over time, blue collar workers were the bread and butter of liberals just a few decades ago with the center of power being conservative hotspots. I'm not sure it's a fear of immigrants, it's a fear of all the byproducts of mass illegal immigration in the face of Merkels open borders. I dont think that's necessarily conservative. Yes most brexit voters were conservative, but I dont think a vote for it is inherently conservative, nether do I think that being anti open borders is inherently conservative.