Many in Europe openly worried that Britain might actually succeed and provide a blueprint for other countries to quit the EU.
What?! Nobody thought that.
In the last two years, 2.4 million people have been allowed to come and settle in Britain, dwarfing any such influx before. The government is now tightening rules, but for many who voted for better control of the borders, it has come too late.
Disappointment is palpable here in Boston, where Polish supermarkets and delicatessens inhabit old Victorian buildings and teams of migrant workers in high-visibility vests work the nearby fields.
Because those people would be better off if no one was working the fields?
If any Britons wanted to work for the wages that immigrants take home, those low-paying jobs would be theirs immediately.