Just to give you an example of what the remain debate is up against, here are a couple of emails from my father-in-law. I often end up talking politics with him whenever we're in each other's company (and we exchange emails about it on a fairly regular basis), we have rather opposing views, to say the least.
We've had a couple of extended chats about Brexit recently (that have become somewhat Mrs Merton heated-esque debates), and I've been sending him links to Ian Dunt's pieces on politics.co.uk, as well as Chris Grey's Brexit Blog.
In return he showed me an article by Janet Daley from the last Sunday Telegraph (they have it delivered every week), where she was suggesting the EU had far more to fear from a Hard Brexit than the UK does.
I must stress here that my father-in-law is a very intelligent man and isn't some crazy old right wing racist (ironically, both he and my mother-in-law travelled extensively in their twenties and thirties, and my mother-in-law has Italian family), but both he and my mother-in-law really don't like the EU at all, think the UK should never have been in it in the first place, and would very much like to see the UK leave.
If there were another referendum tomorrow (and they could, y'know, vote in it), they'd vote Leave, even given all the latest sober warnings about what it will really entail.
Honestly, if there were another referendum, I think Leave could still win it.
(The 'chest-thumping rhetoric' is what I suggested the Janet Daley piece amounted to, he was equally unimpressed by Ian Dunt.)
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