I don’t mean that I’ve already voted so it’s too late to try
and persuade me either way, though that’s true.
I mean it’s too late: the damage is already done.
Whatever the outcome on 24th June, this
pointless, gratuitous referendum has already achieved what will be its one enduring
effect – to unleash primeval instincts of stupid, unreasoning prejudice,
xenophobia and deluded imperialism that have always been latent in this country,
and give them a cause, a voice and a platform.
In doing so, it has diminished us – all of us – in a way that will take us
decades to recover from, if we ever do.
All those who out of pure, misguided self-interest called
for and imposed the referendum, so surrendering in advance to those forces,
have earned their historic legacy. Let them
sink in its mire and be ashamed.
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