Immediately after the vote, nationalist, racist, anti-immigrant leaders in France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and more called for exit referendums in their own countries.
Far-right parties are claiming victory, and are using Britain’s example to recruit. These reactionary nationalist movements, which have been gaining strength in recent years, argue that the unexpected widespread support for leaving shows how the dominant center-right and center-left parties in Europe, which called on their members to vote for staying in the E.U., are out of touch with the people.
Instead of blaming the neoliberal economic policies and harsh austerity measures that have made the lives of working people throughout the continent worse, however, these right-wing nationalist parties scapegoat immigration and E.U. regulations as the supposed source of citizens’ increasing hardship.
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