It has nothing to do with the money. It's about not liking immigrants, same as a$$holes in the US.
I will say though that due to geography reasons at least most of the racists in the UK have at least seen an immigrant before. I've run into Latino hating Americans in places where clearly there isn't no issue of their culture being overrun to say the least. We have anti-immigrant legislation in parts of the country where the Latino population is %0.02 and there are no jobs to steal in the first place.
The other major component is the "I'm being repressed!" thing, we get a lot of that in the US as well. No living natural born American has seen a bomb fall on his home town, foreign boots in his city, hyperinflation, genocide, %70 tax rates, etc. Bad weather and suicide kill more than any external threat. The standard of living is...OK, but not utopian.
Yet we have people who litterally come home from work and strap on a pistol to hang out in their own living room. People who don't care that cops are murdering civilians in the street and planting evidence in the bodies but fear (or hope for) some sort of "home invasion" that is as statistically more rare than a shark attack. That Obama unilaterally assassinated a US citizen with a drone. Doesn't matter. That once you step into a car you lose virtually all protection against search and seizure. Meaningless to the teabagger. Many Americans actually feel they are oppressed, not by the FBI or Homeland Security but by ACA or the UN. Truely hilarious to me since if you really follow that shit you'll see that, if anything, the UN is a tool of the US, not the other way around.
These guys would vote to leave the EU if something like that existed over here. They are geographically adjacent to another country but expect to somehow see no evidence of this, they think borders are more than imaginary lines. They'd vote to leave the continent. I didn't realize there were so many of these guys in the UK. For their sake I hope they do negotiate on good terms with the EU after leaving. They're going to need to be on good ground to not get f*cked by all the oil they'll be buying from Scotland which will likely soon get its own independence...but not from the EU, from the UK.
Very much new territory here. I hope it's more interesting than tragic. Ever since I was a little kid I've been hooked on stuff from the UK. I've probably seen more Brittish TV than American. I've never visited the place but had plans to before 2009 or whenever it was that everything went to shit last. I hope it all turns out OK.
