Tilly

Quite simply: Brexit ended free movement from Europe and Boris replaced it with a far more liberal immigration system for the rest of the world. Employers switched recruitment accordingly. Non-EU immigration then exploded. Brexit didn't require the Boriswave. Brexit gave Boris the power to create it. And he did.

Aha. Here's a man who has no idea. We led 2 immense geopolitical changes in Europe: Thatcher's single market and Major's enlargement. This created a peaceful, prosperous continental polity for the first time since the Roman Empire. And you say we were a nodding donkey. We had weighted voting, not just one among 28. Reflecting the size and wealth of our nation. Equal to France and Germany. The big 3. We won nearly every battle because of that and our alliances with like minded members. The fact the British people never knew of our success was due to the narcissistic victim syndrome of tax evading newspaper owners and the supine politicians who feared them. The fact that our Commissioners, elected MEPs and elected ministers were influential everywhere was simply unreported. Boris Johnson's nonsense was though. Lies about bendy bananas etc. We preferred to believe rubbish than understand reality. And all about just 13% of our laws, mostly goldplated by our own civil service. It was an historic tragedy.