Brexit wouldn't have won the vote if there wasn't a refugee crisis, so that already somewhat happened.
Unsure. Someone from UK might know better since all I know is what media told me during the two week before the vote.
But to me it looked like a lof of the "leave" votes came from people who sing their fathers' songs about that once-great glorious empire, and who are generally dissatisfied with Europe and themselves, as well as London and everything, even against all reason. That, and some very clever (or immensely stupid, depending on how bad the outcome will be) propaganda with deliberately false figures.
Indeed, many of the people interviewed on TV were of the kind that made me doubt whether they are sane at all any more. Such as 90 year olds talking about how great World War 2 was when they (presumably) were big, bad ass combat pilots with a penis made from solid steel, and now it's time to show the fucking Germans and the fucking French again who's the boss.
Or the fisherman who sells 80% of his fish in that fucking EU market. Which totally sucks, fuck the EU. So the question is: Why do you sell to the fucking EU market in the first place if that is not what you want? Well, go figure, because on the UK market you get even less money for your fish, so really... brilliant decision from your part, dude.
I'm not even sure if even the politicians who pushed forward "leave" were ever serious about it. To me, it looks more like they thought they'd play a prank, stirr up things, create a bit of controversy, gain public visibility. Because hey, what can happen, the votum won't make it through anyway. Oh shit, it did... now what? Can someone else hand this in?
"Lefty politics" is something that's impacted the USA
That is very different, however. When you talk of "lefty" in the USA, that is what you would definitively consider "conservative" here. Which is OK. I would vote for these lefties!
But sadly that's something that does not exist at all any more e.g. in Germany. We have a government that consists of a "conservative on paper" left party and a left socialdemocrat party. Then there is an ultra-left party aiming to destroy the establishment (not a joke, sadly... and people still vote for them) and an ultra-ultra left party which is a rebranding of the former socialist/communist party of East Germany (whose government back then has been officially labelled as "unlawful").
If you are not OK with a destructive left-far-left anarchy course, then the Leave-EU party or the Nazi-Party are your only choices. Which is a problem because for that reason not few people (me included) actually vote for Leave-EU although that is
absolutely not what they want. But it is far less evil than the other choices, and you have to vote for
someone. There is only the faint hope that the "conservative on paper" party maybe, just maybe, realizes something is going wrong, and they need to slightly adjust their course to something sane again.
The problem is, it can happen that some day not far away, we may get a similar result like the British did in their referendum, and then everybody will say: "Wait a moment, leave Europe? I didn't think you were serious!".
The level of corruption is an entirely different one in Europe compared to the USA, too (and that's telling!). I find it already insulting when a socialist who is so obese that he barely fits through a doorframe (typical worker, eh?) claims 18k per month and speaks of "more social justice" and then secretly increases his salary again during the soccer EM while nobody is paying attention. But yeah, Germany can afford, no worries. Economy does well.
Other than in France where, as Le Canard Enchainé reported, the socialist president spends 9,895€ of tax payer money per month
on getting his hair cut (WTF?) and lives as if he was Louis XIV. But yeah, there's not enough money for schools and universities, or healthcare. Or for the poor. Oh, we urgently need to raise taxes.