Diego, a nurse working in the Midlands, discussed how his English colleagues talked about the Brexit referendum and how these discussions made him feel. He initially stressed his individual deservingness, mentioning the economic and fiscal contribution he made with his work. He was not “stealing” anything from the British welfare, so he felt that these discussions were not about him. Yet, our conversation reveals more complex hierarchies of belonging, which move from neoliberal understandings of individual merit (discussed in Chapter 1) to racialized generalizations. He clarified that his colleagues’ comments were not about Italians, but about “people from East Europe”. At the same time, he stressed that he did not necessarily believe them: they sounded like Matteo Salvini in Italy. This clarification was implicitly classed. Diego was making clear – to me, another middle-class Italian – that he does not belong to the same Italy that buys into the Northern League's anti-immigration rhetoric, as support for the Northern League is frequently ascribed to ‘ignorant’ voters (Westheuser, 2020).