How do you "give respect" to people who, given half the chance, would literally ship you out of the country you've built your life in for the last two decades?
How do you find "common ground" with people who are seriously convinced that your mere existence is robbing them of something they cannot coherently articulate, when all the facts are that you are actually helping their own welfare?
I am afraid you have no idea what being an European (or most other ethnic minorities) is like in 2019 Britain. For us, this is not your standard dinner-party "lib vs con" parlour game, or the occasional shouting match at a family reunion - it's the difference between being a citizen in a modern democracy and being something very close to a Jew in Brüning's Germany.
How do you find "common ground" with people who are seriously convinced that your mere existence is robbing them of something they cannot coherently articulate, when all the facts are that you are actually helping their own welfare?
I am afraid you have no idea what being an European (or most other ethnic minorities) is like in 2019 Britain. For us, this is not your standard dinner-party "lib vs con" parlour game, or the occasional shouting match at a family reunion - it's the difference between being a citizen in a modern democracy and being something very close to a Jew in Brüning's Germany.