Brexit is a 'working-class revolt' -- if you're white and British
From Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, to London’s Chinatown, the UK’s vote to leave the EU feels threatening, divisive, and poisonous for Britain’s ethnic minority and migrant communities.
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Racism is resurgent in the UK, and centre-left is partly to blame
Rather than engaging with the prejudices and misplaced fears of one section of the working class, the Labour party has given validation to forms of bigotry that have deep roots right across society.
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Brexit is a 'working-class revolt' -- if you're white and British
From Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, to London’s Chinatown, the UK’s vote to leave the EU feels threatening, divisive, and poisonous for Britain’s ethnic minority and migrant communities.
![openDemocracy.net - free thinking for the world openDemocracy.net - free thinking for the world](http://web.archive.org./web/20160712154621im_/https://cdn.opendemocracy.net/files/imagecache/Two_articles/hsiaohung.jpg)
Racism is resurgent in the UK, and centre-left is partly to blame
Rather than engaging with the prejudices and misplaced fears of one section of the working class, the Labour party has given validation to forms of bigotry that have deep roots right across society.
![openDemocracy.net - free thinking for the world openDemocracy.net - free thinking for the world](http://web.archive.org./web/20160712154621im_/https://cdn.opendemocracy.net/files/imagecache/Two_articles/wearing.jpg)