Brexiteers driven by the basest of motives | Letter from Andrew Motion
Watching the campaign of the Brexiteers descend into racist rants, and seeing how this intimidates the fearful and prejudiced into supporting them, only confirms what I (and a lot of others) sensed from the first: that those who want to leave Europe are motivated most powerfully by the basest motives. Imperfect as it may be, the EU is an extraordinarily noble idea, which has brought vastly improved chances of health, justice, enlightenment, environmental protection, cultural richness (yes, and material wealth) in countless ways to countless people across the UK. Spurning these things, and embracing instead dozens of different kinds of insularity, would be an equally extraordinary act of self-damage and self-restriction.
Andrew Motion
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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