"Geoffrey Chesters was supposed to be helping at his daughter’s shop in Crewe on Wednesday, but he was engrossed in a book about money-making schemes, bought for £1 at Nantwich market. He’d reached a chapter entitled “How to become even richer when everyone else goes to the wall”, and was learning how to survive financial apocalypse.
“Look at this,” he said, pointing to a paragraph about negotiating a banking collapse. “This is what’s coming.” He’d been stockpiling tins for months. A no-deal Brexit was going to make everyone poorer, he said. But it was worth it, if it meant the UK got control over immigration. That’s why he voted to leave the European Union: “We’ve got too many of them coming over here and I want it to stop.”
I believe that sums up the attitude of many quitters...
Funnily enough...
All of those places voted leave, but all bar one of those places have a lower than average number of EU migrants...
Thus it is often a perceived image of a problem, not the reality...
Mind you, it's not surprising that EU migrants wouldn't head to those places - they are far too discerning