What is fearful is with the Brexit environment looming, immigrants of all ethnicities are facing backlash from the native British including Indians, who are being asked to 'leave Britain and go back to their home.' Many of these immigrants, tax paying member of this country are born and brought up in Britain for generations. But judged by skin colour and ethnicities- they are being asked to leave this country, by those who have voted Brexit and believe this is time for 'Britain's Independence.'
A Sikh girl and her grandmother were on their way to Sunday shopping in Birmingham, when they got into a verbal fight with people in the parking lot about a certain car space. “This is not the first time. Such squabbles over parkings always happen, and people leave on cordial notes,”she said. “But this time it very quickly blew out of proportion and became racially motivated. We were shouted at by angry people and asked 'go back to your country, if you dont know how to park cars properly here'- it left us really distraught.
“This is our country. My grandparents moved here long ago, parents grew up here and I was born here too. I am British first and and it is painful to be asked to leave my country, just because I am a brown face.”
Remain campaigner Shazia Awan, a Welsh businesswoman, was told to "pack her bags and go home" following the vote to leave the EU won by a majority on Friday.
Wales was one of the main areas in the UK where the Leave campaign was successful with 854,572 votes (52.5%) compared to 772,347 votes (47.5%) in the Remain camp.
Awan now fears one of the consequences of the referendum campaign, which saw Nigel Farage controversially pose in front of queue of a Syrian refugees, will be a rise in racist abuse.
She had written on Twitter: "Don't see how this country can heal itself. The UK is my home yet I feel alienated," to which a twitter user, responded: "Great news...you can pack your bags, you're going home...BYE THEN."
In shock, she tweeted: "Campaign was vile and racist. #Euref has ruined country forever – someone just even told me to go home and am born in the UK."
Awan also told the Independent she witnessed a white man calling a woman a "n*****" in Cardiff after she accused her of voting to stay in Europe and the victim had felt that she could not report it as a hate crime.
"Every ethnic minority, every decent person, everyone who is in a mixed race relationship or from a black, Asian minority ethnic background are going to feel this now. Now start the vile tweets," she said.
A worried mother on Friday tweeted how her daughter saw a Muslim girl was targeted by a group of boys in Birmingham telling her to leave the country.
This evening my daughter left work in Birmingham and saw group of lads corner a Muslim girl shouting "Get out, we voted leave". Awful times
Labour MP Seema Malhotra said on Saturday she was"personally devastated" at the Brexit vote and wanted to assure firms "Britain was still open for business" and that people were worried about community relations.
Other incidents included a British-born Asian who contacted a London radio talk show who claimed she was harassed by a man bellowing nationalist slogans whilst shopping with her child and reports of Muslim schools being targeted for low-level abuse.
Cambridgeshire Police are also investigating after signs reading 'Leave the EU - No more Polish vermin' were posted through doors in shocking post-referendum racism.
Laminated cards were reportedly delivered to members of the Polish community in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
They were also found on the road near St Peter's School at around 8.30am on Friday, with a translation on the back reading 'go home Polish scum.'
Meanwhile an account on Twitter has been set up, entitled Post Ref Racism, for people to report the rise in racism in the UK following the Brexit vote.
A Labour councillor has claimed he was questioned on why he should be able to vote in the EU referendum because he “doesn’t look English”.
The Evening Standard reported, Rishi Madlani, 34, who has represented Bloomsbury since 2014, said he was challenged on his eligibility to vote while canvassing at University College London.
On Thursday, Mr Madlani was at Ramsay Hall polling station in Maple Street, near Tottenham Court Road, when he asked a man for his polling number but was refused.
He said the man, who he believed was in his 30s, walked off but then returned and asked him why he was allowed to vote.
Mr Madlani told the Standard: “He hung back to wait until I was on my own and asked me why I should have a say because I wasn’t British.
“I told him I was born and bred in Britain and he said to me, well you don’t look English.
“I didn’t expect this type of thing to happen in Bloomsbury. I have been a member of the party for about 10 years and have never experienced anything as distressing as that.
“But I must say I’ve been so touched by the messages of support from people on Facebook and other residents.”
Mr Madlani, said he thinks this has come about because of some of the rhetoric on issues like immigration in this debate. He added that the police were not contacted but said he will raise it with his neighbourhood officers.
James Titcombe on twitter wrote that his daughter told him that someone wrote “[child's name] go back to Romania,” on the wall in the girls toilets at school on 24th June. An older woman was spotted to tell a young Polish woman and her baby to get off and get packing. Less than 20 hours after Brexit results announced,. A South Asian man was called 'a Paki c*nt in a suit' by a homeless man. Outside a 78% Muslim school, a man was seen standing making victory signs at families walking past. Many more of such incidents were reported.
Sadiq Khan urged Londoners to "stand guard" against hate crime following Britain's decision to withdraw from the European Union. The Mayor joined Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe to warn there would be a "zero tolerance" approach to xenophobic attacks.
They said police would be "extra vigilant" after a spate of incidents including racist graffiti being daubed on a Polish community centre in Hammersmith.
City Hall aides said Mr Khan was "very concerned" about reports of racial tension after the Brexit vote highlighted disagreements about immigration.
London voted strongly for Britain to stay in the EU with around 60 per cent of people voting Remain, and just five of the 33 boroughs wanting to leave.
Around 850,000 Londoners were born in other EU countries, with Poles and Irish the biggest groups, and many are concerned about what Brexit will mean.
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