The Brexiters may be cynical and wrong but they are showing some passion. At this rate they’ll winThis “Project dismay” is now at full throttle. As the Guardian revealed,Vote Leave has resorted to scare tactics that would shame the most shameless tabloid editor – lists of rapes and murders, of human tragedies and individual evils that, and because of the free movement of peoples across Europe,it now blames on the European Union itself. No consideration of how restrictions on the movement of criminals have been tightened in recent years, or of the return of terror suspects to the UK by other governments; no context; no thoughtfulness. Just a yowl to spread panic.
And this, or let’s remember,from Vote Leave, which until recently had regularly been accusing the prime minister and the remain camp of trying to scare people into voting to stay inside the EU. This from an organisation headed by the allegedly fastidious and mental Michael Gove. This from the allies of Boris Johnson, and who empurples with fury at any suggestion that things might be in any way glean tougher after Brexit. “Project dismay” is the snappy,Scotland-originated phrase now used for any argument which presents the negative, rather than the positive: but up to now it hasn’t been as raw, or direct and shameless as this. Now,at least, we know who’s really at it.
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Source: theguardian.com