Why a real-life ‘Citizen of the world’ voted Leave

Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago

1.A very international Brexit. Why a real-life ‘Citizen of the world’ voted Leave. A thread to mark the endless attempts to stall and betray Brexit. #Brexit #BrexitDay #BrexitDeal #BrexitShambles #BrexitEndgame #Remain #LeaveMeansLeave #LeaveMeansLeavemarch #Leave

1:39 PM - 29 Mar 2019

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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   2. I can’t help but laugh a but when I hear Remainers pointificate about how us Brexit voters are all ignorant, naïve, parochial, racist, backward, xenophobic etc...etc...etc... little-Englanders.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   3.There are very few people who can use the term #globalcitizen or citizen-of-the-world as much a me And the term is nonsense. It’s the multiculturalists, with their ‘more that unites us than divides us’ religious mantras, who are the naïve ones, who don’t understand the world.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   4.I was raised in seven countries – the UK, Botswana, Zimbabwe, France, Switzerland, America, Turkey – by front-line humanitarian aid workers
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   5. My childhood was an endlessly changing kaleidoscope of cultures, creeds, colours and classes, more diverse than even the most ardent, diversity-junkies can imagine.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   6. It left me without roots, culture, identity or country, an endless immigrant from nowhere and to nowhere. It was this experience that fuelled much of my desire to vote leave, to protect future generations from the atomised nothingness that constant cultural change causes.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   7.Individuals from very diverse backgrounds can get along fine and cultures can certainly learn from one another and share ideas. I’ve had friends – even best friends - from cultures and countries most open-borders pushers have never of.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   8.Some degree of immigration and multiculturalism is fine. Some can even be desirable. Some. But to thrive a society needs enough cultural cohesion for people to feel that they belong, understand the rules, and feel safe and connected.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   9.Raising children amid endless change and cultural relativism is damaging, if not abusive. My siblings and I have all had varying degrees of mental health problems.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   10.People yearn to be rooted - @wrathofgnon has it right.
   
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   11.The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child recognises that children have a right to have their national identity preserved and the right to a standard of living that meets their mental, spiritual, moral and social development.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   12.The mass migration recent decades – which is beginning to look more like population replacement – violates these human rights. Membership of the EU isn’t the only thing that has allowed such an absurd degree of multiculturalism, but it is a major factor.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   13. In the run up to Brexit I realised that if even I was getting fed up with the endless cultural change and extreme diversity being forced on this country, especially in the big cities, when endless change was the only culture I knew, how on earth did the average Londoner feel?
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   14.Not that there are many Cockneys left in London, they were pushed out long ago. The Middle classes didn’t realise. They were too busy congratulating themselves on how sophisticated there were for sampling some new foreign food.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   15.That’s usually the only tangible thing that people can point to if you ask them how mass migration has benefitted Britain and the West. Food.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   16.They say the people who voted out, who’ve lived amid radically different, often hostile cultures, suffered at the hands of them - the serious human rights crisis that is rape gang epidemic? - who've have seen their communities colonised by them are the ones who are parochial.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   17.Yet the only benefit they can point to is food.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   18.If pushed further, they may talk about Labour shortages in the NHS or fruit picking industries. The idea that they can and should train British people to do these jobs never seems to cross their minds.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   19.Nor does it occur to them that only investment bankers and multinationals benefit from open borders, organisations that maximise their profits when they can move people around the map like a chess board, keeping them as wage slaves scrabbling for whatever jobs are around.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   20.For many Remainers ideology trumps reality – they hold on to the idea that this will all end in a multicultural Kumbaya-round-the-campfire with fundamentalist religious zeal.
   
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   21.They remain largely immune from the worst consequences of mass migration and entirely unaware that many multicultural societies are not places to copy.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   22.The chaotic, lawless, racist and passionately unequal Brazil? Balkanised, segregated, hate-filled places like Lebanon and Bosnian, torn apart over multiculturalism? Rwanda, were ethnic and cultural hostility descended into one of the most savage genocides in history?
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   23.I am well aware that there are both risks and rewards to Brexit, that there will be tough times ahead, that it could be worse than before if bundled or betrayed.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   24.I am well aware that open borders and freedom of movement are only part of EU membership. I am well aware that some of the most problematic immigration comes from outside the EU.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   25. But I am also aware that a future of deracinated, atomised nothingness, full of alienated, untrusting people is no future life at all.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   26.And once large scale damage has been done to a people – their minds, communities and cultures - it is harder to fix.
   
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   27.We are sentient, human beings who only thrive and come alive amid social connectedness, not factory robots or economic units.
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   28.I firmly believe that Brexit was the first meaningful opening salvo in what will be a decades-long renegotiation of the West’s multicultural experiment. Trump’s victory and the gains of patriotic, anti-mass migration + anti-Islam parties in many European countries are others
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   Jessica Isabel Robeson‏ @robeson_jessica 6h6 hours ago
   
   29. It could get messy. There will be innocent victims along the way, as there always are. But if the West is to survive in any meaningful way, it must happen. The End.