disUnited Kingom: England

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The Compass, disUnited Kingdom

Episode 1 of 4

What has the European Union referendum vote revealed about the divisions within the UK? And what might this mean for the cohesion of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

Birmingham in the West Midlands, one of the biggest cities to vote leave, has been lauded as a success for multiculturalism but the result has brought tensions to the fore. A spike in hate crime, a petrol bombed halal butchers and racist graffiti were some of the short term effects. A 15 minute drive from the centre of Birmingham is the town of Walsall – where Nina Robinson was born and brought up, where immigrant communities have settled from South Asia but where a large majority voted to leave. Nina returns from London (which voted strongly the other way) to investigate why her family and other locals are disillusioned with politics and politicians and how they want their vote to translate into radical change. She talks to the people building bridges post-Brexit - the UKIP councillor visiting Muslim schools, the residents reaching out to their neighbours and the Muslim street artist known as ‘Birmingham’s Banksy’. What does Brexit from Birmingham tell us about being British in 2016?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048n2y1

 

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This is a fascinating documentary on the Brexit referendum. Some people in ethnic communities, many people emigrated to the UK from Asia and Africa after World War Two, voted to leave the EU, as they were unhappy with unrestrained immigration from Eastern Europe.

 

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This is a fascinating documentary on the Brexit referendum. Some people in ethnic communities, many people emigrated to the UK from Asia and Africa after World War Two, voted to leave the EU, as they were unhappy with unrestrained immigration from Eastern Europe.

Does this mean that the immigrants are racist for having concerns over the next round of immigrants ?

 

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This is a fascinating documentary on the Brexit referendum. Some people in ethnic communities, many people emigrated to the UK from Asia and Africa after World War Two, voted to leave the EU, as they were unhappy with unrestrained immigration from Eastern Europe.

Does this mean that the immigrants are racist for having concerns over the next round of immigrants ?

This has been an issue in many ethnic communities in the UK, for some time, but didn't get much media attention. Many in these communities have relatives who, even if they have job offers, are finding getting work visa very difficult and costly. While at the same time, they see Europeans arriving without jobs, and not very fluent in English, and it causes resentment.

 

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The UK Could 'Explode' Into Riots If Immigration Is Not Curbed By Brexit, Warns Labour's Rachel Reeves

The Leeds West MP gave the prediction as she urged her party to listen to people’s concerns over immigration.

Reeves is one of a number of Labour MPs in the past few weeks to call for freedom of movement to be scrapped as part of any Brexit deal between the EU and the UK.

She said that claims she was “Red Ukip” for calling for the change were “really insulting.”

http://m.huffingtonpost.com.au/entr...immigration-riots_uk_57ea791ee4b00e5804ef5ae0

 

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The day Theresa and Boris showed how to put the Great back in a proud and FREE Britain that can be a beacon for Europe and the world



KATIE HOPKINS on the day Theresa May put the Great back in a free Britain | Daily Mail Online

 

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disUnited Kingdom: Wrexham, Wales

The Compass, disUnited Kingdom

Episode 2 of 4
The people of Wales received hundreds of millions in EU grants to regenerate areas depressed by de-industrialisation. Yet Wales, like England, voted to leave the EU. In many cases, the areas voting moststrongly for leave were those receiving the most EU money.

Bethan Kilfoil, a former BBC Wales correspondent in Brussels, and now a resident in Ireland, travels home to North Wales to find out why people voted the way they did. She explores what Brexit may mean for Wales in the future, and what the differences in patterns of voting between Welsh and English speaking areas tell us.

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BBC World Service - The Compass, disUnited Kingdom, disUnited Kingdom: Wrexham, Wales