Subject of an email sent to me by the Labour Party today:
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Jo Cox MP & EU Referendum
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I suspect champagne corks are popping in Brussels and Strasbourg. Leave's momentum is gone, the bookies are telling the story and there's little doubt the EU machine is gearing up to punish us for our dalliance with leaving to ensure other EU states don't get ideas above their station.
I give it a month, tops, after the EU delivers the various bits of policy they know the UK won't like and have been holding back pending the referendum before some who voted to remain have second thoughts.
Leave is toast. Remain have cynically milked the recent tragedy and changed the tone, with Jo Cox's memorial scheduled for Wednesday which will further influence. Thanks largely to Farage, I'm not going to say UKIP because most prominent UKIP and ex-UKIP voices disagree with what that megalomaniac has done, Leave can't really point out that remaining is the more closed-minded, racist option.
If last week ends up being the turning point perhaps best we do remain in the EU. If the public opinion is swung by one event, however tragic, we clearly aren't grown up enough to govern ourselves, and once Generation Snowflake get their hands on the wheels of power we'll probably end up diving head long into further integration anyway, because feels.