{"id":6447,"date":"2018-03-18T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2022-09-18T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T22:24:15","slug":"brexit-the-result-of-rising-inequality-not-rising-immigration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=6447","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: The result of rising inequality, not rising immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration has been suggested as the reason for why a narrow majority of people in the UK voted for Brexit. The concept was used to stoke up fear in areas of low immigration.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, immigration is not what sets the UK apart from other EU nations as unusual.<\/p>\n<p>The real reason for the Brexit vote was widespread and rising dissatisfaction with living standards as a result of rising inequalities.<\/p>\n<p>This talk concentrates on that and on what the UK and especially England may learn about itself in the coming years, partly as a consequence of the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n<p>Talk and discussion afterwards recorded at &#8220;Imagine: Belfast\u2019s festival of ideas and politics&#8221;, held at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, March 17th 2018 (St Patrick&#8217;s day)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/6730483-brexit-the-result-of-rising-inequality-not-rising-immigration\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAA53rlrzsmYA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration has been suggested as the reason for why a narrow majority of people in the UK voted for Brexit. The concept was used to stoke up fear in areas of low immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}