Last year, openDemocracy predicted that the Brexit debate in the political and media mainstream would be framed as such: “Do we love business more than we hate immigrants, or do we hate immigrants more than we love business?”
And this is exactly what has happened, with one side arguing that leaving the EU will lead to economic collapse and the other side countering that remaining in the EU means that 76 million Turks will come streaming into the UK to breed like rabbits and cause crime.
Of course. It was never going to be easy having a worthwhile debate about membership of the EU in the twenty first century after decades of non- and disinformation. If only because the issues are many and complicated - see Eleanor Penny doing an absolutely sterling job of this here - but the mainstream diet of this campaign has been more like this (look at the third vid down) with… with no questions answered at all, just rumour, condescension, windbag assertion and a selfie!
