Brexiters step up migrant-hating message
The "Vote Leave" campaign has become an ugly spate of migrant-bating. "Twelve million Turks say they'll come to the UK", screamed the Daily Express on 22 May. Around the same time Vote Leave launched a poster saying simply "Turkey (population 76 million) is joining the EU". Not 12 million now, but 76 million! Tory cabinet minister Michael Gove was more restrained: he predicted 5.2 million extra immigrants. The Express and Vote Leave were keen to nudge all prejudices. The murder rate in Turkey is higher than in Britain, they said. They'd didn't say that Turkey's rate is lower than the USA's...