John Oliver nails it

[gillo]

I am genuinely terrified of the possible result of Thursday's Referendum. I want my country back - not handed over to Farage, Boris, IDS, Gove and their goons. I believe we are part of Europe in every possible way, not just geographically. If we leave, we lose so much - not just economically but culturally and in domestic terms. That "red tape" the

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[denorios]

I'm worried too. For a while I thought there wasn't much to be worried about - that it would be a bit like the Scottish referendum, that people would talk a good talk but when it came to actually voting they'd err on the side of caution. But now I'm not so sure...

I'm not so worried that everything will go to shit if we leave the EU. It's more...how do I put this? I really don't like the mindset and mentality of the people who want to leave, because so much of it seems a kneejerk reaction to refugees and immigration and a resort to a kind of blinkered British nationalism that I thought we'd moved beyond. And if we do end up voting to Leave, it will almost be a vindication to those people, almost handing them a mandate to continue to behave like that. And that's what worries me, that it will just encourage this closed-minded, right-wing, Little England mentality, but with the reinforcement of the fact that a lot more of the country agrees with them that we thought!

[heleninwales]

I share your worry about how leaving would appear to vindicate the racist views of so many of the strident voices in the Leave campaign. The thing is, even if we did leave, immigration is not going to fall to zero, so they're not even going to get what they say they want.

[gillo]

So much of the 'stridency' is damned close to racism. Farage's latest poster makes me feel almost physically ill.

[heleninwales]

Even Gove has condemned that poster. Heaven knows, I haven no love for Gove after his total cluelessness regarding education policy, but I think there is a shred of human decency hidden inside somewhere, unlike Boris and Farage, who are just out to further their own ambitions and have jumped on this Brexit bandwagon as a way to do so.

[gillo]

My feeling too. It plays to the lowest common denominator. Like Farage's bloody poster.