Politicians like to blame somebody else. The Westminster club blame Europe. Sturgeon blames Westminster.
But remove the bogeymen and you're accountable. 'Up North' we have ghettos of non-english speaking economic migrants who by the very fact of not speaking the language are reliant on benefits, and need housing, education for their kids and access to healthcare. Two examples of this are a Roma group in Rotherham and a Somali group in Sheffield. They don't integrate, and there are tensions not only with 'the english', but also with Asian groups and to a lesser extent the Afro-Caribbeans in Sheffield. The extreme right wing parties are taking advantage of this situation in the affected areas.
From interviews on local TV it's quite obvious that the long wait for doctors appointments and difficulty getting hospital beds is being blamed on immigrants. There's a huge groundswell of leave voters in the North.
It will be very interesting to see a map of how the country has voted. The problem that Labour has is that the party line of Remain is at odds with working class Labour supporters and that may have further ramifications come the next general election.
Having said all that I still think it will be a close vote.
