Stronger In
Jun. 23rd, 2016 12:11 pmIt'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.