And so it begins.
The Today programme could not be bothered to find any supporters of leaving the EU from among its own listeners.
Instead, it treated us to a quarter of an hour of uneducated, racist halfwits who sounded as if they had been created by Catherine Tate.
The item began with the bald assertion that the only people who wanted to leave the EU were those with no academic qualifications whatever, especially those among them who were, as they do tend to be, extremely old.
What are in fact those quite rare people had been assiduously tracked down in order to illustrate the point.
The Radio Four audience must have thought that it was listening to a report from an entirely foreign and utterly unattractive country. In a way, it was.
The Radio Four audience must have thought that it was listening to a report from an entirely foreign and utterly unattractive country. In a way, it was.
Will the selected voices of ordinary voters who wanted to stay in the EU be remotely comparable to these? No, of course not.
This is all the fault of framing the debate in terms of immigration, and of giving UKIP a role of any prominence whatever.
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