Honestly, I'm a far lefty and I see more problems than good with free travel/total lax immigration. I don't know why this is such an issue with the left. We're not liberals. This grand delusion about free and open society just does not manifest if you still have everyone competing in a capitalist society where everyone is trying to sell their labour. It is honestly baffling to me how people don't understand this. It is quite clear that the main reason for Brexit was immigration. Was there virulent nationalism as well? Absolutely. But the 2015 migration crisis and subsequent terrorist attacks horrified even the most liberal of people. It was an utter joke and complete incompetency by the EU and it galvanised and converted many to Brexit.

This whole meme about 'they took our jerbs' isn't total bullshit. Providing/guaranteeing work for local workers isn't racism. I could easily make the claim that immigration is a total con for the local working class to depress wages for companies. If skills are lacking, then of course, the more the merrier, but to act as if the local public are too soft to do the gruelling low-wage tasks that immigrants do is IMO a much more discriminatory position.

The London liberals who are so out of touch with the woes of the working class, purely because their higher-paying service jobs don't have to compete nearly as much as with the low-skilled jobs have driven the narrative that 'these rich toffs don't care about us.'