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From the year before Brexit to the year immediately after it, pretty much all the 400k a year (peak) inflow of immigrants from the EU was replaced by a extra 400k a year immigrants from South East Asia.
Around 50% of EU immigrants immigrants to the UK had Degrees. The ones from South East Asia that replaced them were nowhere near as highly educated.
Before Britain was operating high value added Industries beyond the local capacity of supplying domain experts by using those coming from abroad, which was mainly from the EU (also many from South East Asia, just far less than from the EU). You can't operate such industries with people who have no schooling beyond learning to read and write and basic Maths.
I lived in the UK as an EU immigrant for over a decade until Brexit and most of the consequences for it were there to see already well before even the vote, even those consequences that matter the most to the kind of people whose main reason to vote Leave was xenophobia.
Absolutely. I remember reading analysis of the possible outcomes, and it all read like things were going to be worse for anyone with less than 100 mill in the bank!
I'm glad I left while it was still an option