The supporters of the exit from the European Union are trying to alarm their countrymen by speculating which country would be next to join the block.
Brexit supporters, Vote leave movement led by top campaigner, the former Mayor of London Boris Johnson, are spreading the “scary” leaflets that these are Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey who are waiting in line for the membership.
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It echoes the recent remarks of Defense Minister Penny Mordaunt who referred to the residents of the Balkan states as “criminals, terrorists and gangsters” who will flood the UK when Turkey, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and Macedonia join the EU.
And even though David Cameron blasted the remarks as “absolutely wrong”, they made a strong impact on the electorate. Especially taking into account the recent polls which show that the majority is in favor of the exit.
Political analyst Milos Damnjanovic, who has been living in England for a long time, has called such pictures a cheap populism.
“This is a cheap populism which is playing upon British superiority over other nations, which average British don’t know much about,” he told recently Blitz magazine.
Meanwhile, he added, what is the most ironic is that the British traditionally support the expansion of the EU, and, among others, by means of accepting Turkey.
He noted that since the expansion of the EU in 2004, somewhat two million people have come to the UK. And while many complain that there are “over the top” migrants in the UK and that they intruded the country violating its way of life, it is not true.
The migrants are working and paying taxes. A new generation has already been born and integrated into the British society. However average people still perceive them as a threat regardless all the above.
London-based Serbian journalist Sinisa Ljepojevic told Sputnik that apparently the British elite can’t offer the average Britons anything apart from fear and lie.
The journalist regards all the above as “part of the global political chaos just before the referendum”.
He said that up to 140,000 Serbs are now living in the UK and half of them in London. However they have never caused any problems. They are very hardworking and he doesn’t know any single Serb who is receiving any social benefits.
Ljepojevic suggested that these countries are simply being used for internal political infighting, however he doubts that it might bring any benefits.
