We must stop the negative Brexit rhetoric and ensure EU citizens feel welcome in Wales

This isn't about trust in our politicians it's about people's lives, how they are treated - and they have been treated badly since debacle began. The imagined 'swamping' by people from the EU, by the press in particularly, has been wrong, inaccurate and pretty disgusting. Those who perpetrated it should hold their heads in shame. Wales did not vote for this bigotry no matter what you say. The country should show openess and tolerance not fall into the trap set by hardline, xenophobic brexiteers.

'So what will the government do? It will bring in people from outside the EU.' I think that's likely to be the case, and indeed the new Westminster government has already given some indication that it's what they're envisaging. However, the impression I've gathered over the years from folk of a Brexity tendency is that their concerns around inward migration weren't so much focused on migration from the EU - Romanians and Poles being a possible exception - but rather on inward migration from Asia and, to a smaller extent because the numbers recently have been rather less, from Africa and the Caribbean. Which is surely why, back in 2016 in the run-up to the referendum, UKIP and Farage - and Boris Johnson too - singled out Turkey, rather than, say, Romania or Poland, as their Brexit propaganda focus, generating predictable screaming headlines in the likes of the 'Sun, 'Express' and 'Mail' announcing 'EU loophole could see 77 MILLION Turks head to Britain, warn Farage and Johnson'. It was a lie. Despite Tony Blair's repeated advocacy of it back in his time, Turkey was never likely to be admitted to the EU, and each time the Turkish electorate voted Mr Erdogan and his AKP party into power in Ankara the prospect became yet more remote. By now even the Turkish government has effectively abandoned the idea of EU membership. But no matter; shout a lie loud enough and long enough to jittery and considerably ignorant people and it's likely to be believed. The Bunterites are now telling us that, post-Brexit, we'll have regained 'control of our borders'. And they're righr, we will. But since you're quite correct when you ask; 'When Brexit goes ahead who is going to do the jobs of Drs, nurses, other health and social care workers? There aren’t enough qualified people in the UK to take their place', we'll have to attract skilled people from outside the EU. And what the government has proposed is that it will recruit from the rest of the world, which is likely for the most part to mean English-speakers from Asia and Africa because the pay and working conditions are generally better here than they are in their homelands. Is that what the Brexiteers in the street want? You can call it racism, and the predictable people do call it exactly that; but my impression is that it's driven more by a sense that immigrants from those parts of the globe tend to have a worldview and to hold values very different from, and sometimes radically opposed to, those generally held here. That, rather than mere crude racism, strikes me as the thing that really worries them. That's why I think that the said Brexiter in the street may ultimately be rather disappointed by the actual consequences of Brexit, as this Westminster government to which they've give such a definite mandate pursues its post-Brexit policies over the next four and a half years.

There will be a hundred thousand Africans incoming to the uk within ten years. Health boards are already recruiting. All those new nurses promised by the Tories will be mostly african/Indian graduates.