Mistake or lie?

I was unfortunate enough to hear some random "man on the street" bloke being interviewed this morning about impending "Brexit" woes, this is what he said..

"So what if there is disruption at the ports, so what if food costs more, who cares if holidays are now more difficult, all that is worth it to stop my sons being forced to learn Muslim in the schools, that's the real benefit of Brexit"

Of course this is only the view of one person, but, it's nice to hear the truth for once! We keep getting told that there are great "benefits" just around the corner for us all, now that the UK is out of the EU, but I'm yet to hear anyone articulate what these benefits might be? The only thing I've ever heard from anyone who supported this move has been along the exact same lines as the chap above, i.e. pure unadulterated xenophobia (although what Muslims have to do with the EU I don't know!) or a blatant lie or simply that they made a mistake and now regret voting leave! Although, if you think about it, since we're now all supposed to be looking to non-European countries upon which to build our businesses and future economic growth, "learning Muslim", might not be such a bad idea.

Like many things done for emotional reasons and not logical reasons, there's often a backfire with unintended consequences, immigration for example, just look how it's profile has changed since 2016 and the Brexit vote (see chart below)

I wonder what this chap is going to say when the UK government do the inevitable (because there's not enough skilled people in the UK to sustain our levels of growth) work-visa deal with say, India or Pakistan or perhaps Indonesia? I fear that when this happens his kids are going to be forced to learn a slightly harder lesson, i.e. how to live on smaller wages and diminished job opportunities.