I think the mainstream media and Twitter Twats have a lot to blame for the intense divide between leave and remain. Mainly because of the tone - “leavers” being racist, xenophobic right wing gammon and “remainers” being communist/extreme left socialist, politically correct, middle class college puddings. The name calling and slander causes hackles to rise and entrenchment of position.
Every political compass test I’ve taken has planted me firmly left of centre but I’d vote leave in a second referendum (voted remain in 2016). I don’t like how the EU is going, it’s fracturing, the populists are on the march and membership could drag us into recession into the next few years anyway. Immigration needs to be tempered with investment OUTSIDE of cosmopolitan city bubbles as it’s literally destroying and making poverty traps in towns and villages that still haven’t recovered after the 80s denationalisation of manufacturing industries. An upcoming example being British Steel - collapsing will be catastrophic for Scunthorpe and THOUSANDS of families for generations in the area but under EU rules the government can’t bail it out. Where’s the investment in the area to keep it from relying on one source of employment? Who will help those families, who have added pressure in finding employment from an immigrant workforce who will work on minimum wage zero contract hours and keep heat in the cost of living and housing (don’t forget social housing has been decimated over the years). It’s like Sheffield and the miners all over again.
There is so much to fix in this country, it’s time to get Brexit out of the way and crack on with rebuilding the ruins