Stronger In

[davidgillon]

It's polling day in the EU referendum.

Vote Leave has as its key figures Boris, Gove, IDS and Farage. We wouldn't trust any of them to run a piss-up in a brewery (Boris could probably manage, but it would be the kind you spend the rest of you life trying to deny happened), so why trust them with the future of the nation? Vote Leave's campaign has been based around rabble-rousing xenophobia and lies, its prime backers tend to be members of the 1% who can see an angle for themselves. It is clear about its intention to cut workers rights. It says it wants to protect the NHS, yet many of its leaders are on record as wanting to break up the NHS.

Vote Remain has as its key figures everyone else. Its campaign has focused on the strengths we gain from Europe. A pro-Remain MP was gunned down in the street for standing up for doing the right thing.

I've spent my working life surrounded by European workers, many of my frends and neighbours have been non-Brits. We're a better country for the diversity they bring us.

It'll be difficult to fix the hatred this campaign has roused if we remain, it will be impossible if we leave.

I'm voting Remain, guess which way I hope you'll vote.
 

Comments

[jadelennox]

I'm a never-resident dual national non-voting citizen, and admit that sometimes the details of whether leave or stay becomes complex to me. But the fact that the main thrust of the "leave" argument seems to be "immigrants are brown and also dirty and also did you know they come from countries that are not England and sometimes speak languages that are not English?" is really enough to make the answer obvious.

[green_knight]

I've heard from people who want to stick it up to David Cameron without considering whose narrative they seek to validate. I can somewhat understand that, but not at this price.

The backlash will be bad enough. Even if Britain votes Remain (which I sincerely hope it does), the Tories will use the strong Brexit campaign to pull in the worst policies under the pretence of 'they had a strong mandate, we need to listen'. Bah.

[davidgillon]

want to stick it up to David Cameron

That's why I keep pointing out on Twitter that IDS is pro-Leave!

[sovay]

Stronger In

Because my cousin has an LJ-icon that reads "Stronger in the Broken Places," my brain automatically supplied the remainder of that phrase to your post title.

Fingers crossed.

[nanila]

Happy to validate your hope, for my part.