As today, 23rd of May 2016 has finally come to our doorway and let us vote, millions of voters are heading to the poll station, to decide upon the country’s biggest plan for its future. As the country prepares for the crucial vote on its future in, or out, of the European Union, polls suggest the debate is neck-and-neck, and well within the margin of error.
The latest polls have been suggesting the results may go either way. The increasing numbers of Brexit voters have been proliferating more anxiety and confusion for the future of the country, whilst the “Leave” campaign have been using far-right ideological enterprises by causing xenophobia and racist comments upon the big day. Regardless of this whole eventful phase, there is a big challenge between both sides and there are heroes, idols and opinion leaders on each side.
PRESIDENT CAMERON: TURKEY WAS USED FOR UNTRUE DEFLECTIVE NEWS
Undoubtedly, one of the most worrying and unfortunate events of the Leave campaign’s actions has been their use of Turkey, as a “threat” to sway people’s minds by making up a false-story on Turkey’s joining to the EU. Whilst there was indeed a negotiation between EU and Turkey, the agreements was only about a free-visa travel (not immigration) and would only be valid for the Schengen Zone, which the UK isn’t included.
A LABOUR MP WAS KILLED DURING HER CAMPAIGN
On 16 June 2016, Jo Cox, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen, died after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England, shortly before she was due to hold a constituency surgery. A 52-year-old local man, Thomas Mair, was arrested in connection with Cox’s death and subsequently charged with her murder and other offences.
The incident was the first killing of a sitting British MP since the death of Ian Gow in 1990, and the first in which the victim was a woman or a member of the Labour Party.
THERE HAVE BEEN DEFECTS FROM LEAVE TO REMAIN
The worrying increase of xenophobia and racist views, took mainstream and social media by storm that some MPs officially declared their defects from Leave to Remain campaign. The influential Conservative MP Dr Sarah Wollaston has revealed that she is defecting from the campaign for a leave vote in this month’s referendum and will be casting a vote for Britain to remain in the European Union. In an interview with the BBC, Wollaston said that she had undergone a change of heart after her postal vote arrived and she started to think how she would feel on the morning of 24 June if the result of the referendum turned out to be a victory for the leave campaign. “I realised I would feel a sense of loss, that we had lost something, and I am now actually going to vote to remain,” she said. Another important figure, Baroness Warsi told the Times newspaper she realised she could not support the campaign after seeing a Ukip poster portraying Syrian refugees in a negative light.
