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that Britain is beaten and broken, that it can’t survive

without the help of Jean-Claude Juncker and his Commission looking after us and if we dare to assert ourselves then all the terrors of the earth will be unleashed upon our head.
It’s a fact that also describes Austria-Hungary under the Habsburgs, the Russian Empire under Nicholas the Second, Rome under its later Emperors or the Ottoman Empire in its final years.
To cap it all, an alliance of Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump, emboldened by our weakness, would, like some geopolitical equivalent of the Penguin, Catwoman and the Joker, be liberated to spread chaos worldwide and subvert our democracy.
I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R Martin and Stephen King - Brexit would mean a combination of a Feast for Crows and Misery.
Britain has spoken, it’s said “oui” and now it had better shut up and suck it up.

which you might think was setting the bar a little

bit low.
In contrast to the Prime Minister who said, “if you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere”.
We believe in fact that we can only fully achieve what we want to as citizens of Britain by also recognising we are “citizens of the world”.

David Lammy:
European migrants are not “citizens of nowhere” or “queue jumpers” as the Prime Minister would have us believe.
Theresa May’s deal has emerged as a Frankenstein’s monster: an ugly beast that no one voted for or wanted.

and easily scared by ghost stories.
[…] is a fantasy,

a phantom, a great, grotesque patronising and preposterous Peter Mandelsonian conceit that imagines the people of this country are mere children, capable of being frightened into obedience by conjuring up new bogeymen every night.

David Lammy:
It is the same idea that motivates an angry teenager to run away from their family.

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David Lammy:
Let me remind them: Churchill understood the European dream

is to build a whole bigger than the sum of its parts […] Let us now be honest with the country.
Total independence is a fantasy. It is the same idea that motivates an angry teenager to run away from their family. Total independence means throwing a tantrum and ending up in the cold.
Total independence is selfishness […] Total independence will not solve our problems. Total independence will lead to total isolation.
And let us be honest. Britain did not become “Great” in total isolation. Britain thrived by becoming the biggest Treaty-Signing power in the world. Britain thrived by signing more than 14,000 treaties in the modern age […]

are still wavering, I ask honestly: can you really vote

for this politics of division and hate? Can you really vote to slash workers’ rights and protections?
Can you vote to give tax avoiders a sanctuary? Can you vote to hand over more power to the clumsy hand of the market?

It forgets the lessons of Britain’s past.
It forgets the value of immigrants.
It forgets that we cannot build a new Empire by force.
It forgets that in the modern world our nation

press ahead with the plans […]
If we vote to stay

we also risk paying even more of the bills for the euro’s failure […]
If we vote to stay, British taxpayers will inevitably be paying ever higher bills for years to come […]
If we vote to stay we are not settling for the status quo - we are voting to be a hostage, locked in the boot of a car driven by others to a place and at a pace that we have no control over.

It could be invested in new infrastructure, apprenticeships and science. It could be deployed in our NHS, schools and social care. It could pay for tax cuts, enterprise allowances and trade missions. It could pay for fourteen Astute Class Submarines.

had to […] a different Europe will be a liberation.

For Spanish families whose children have had to endure years of joblessness […] a different Europe will be a liberation.
For Portuguese citizens who have had to endure cuts to health […] a different Europe will be a liberation.
For Italians whose elected Government was dismissed by Brussels fiat, for Danes whose opt-out from the Maastricht Treaty has been repeatedly overridden by the European Court, for Poles whose hard-won independence has been eroded by the European Commission, a different Europe will be a liberation.

control over how we can help developing nations, control over

economic rules, control over how billions currently spent by others could be spent, control over our borders, control over who uses the NHS and control over who can make their home here.

countries which fought and murdered each other on an industrial

scale, twice in one century, could come together. A refusal to return to extreme nationalism. And a determination to prevent more bloody conflicts where tens of millions are killed […]
And a refusal to submit to the tyranny of fascism, ever again.
After the Second World War, in 1946, Winston Churchill said […]
What did it say when Nigel Farage stood in front of a Nazi-inspired poster of refugees, with the caption “breaking point”?
Brexit forgets why this continent came together, after two bloody wars.

was a clear rise in xenophobic and racist attacks on

our streets […]

Michael Gove:
[…] our mobile telephones would no longer work. And heaven help us if we fell ill, as citizens from a country outside the EU we would be barred from all of Europe’s hospitals and left to expire unmourned in some foreign field.
Our football teams would be denuded of foreign players, so Premier league matches would have to become - at best - five-a-side contests. And we’d better not schedule those fixtures for dark evenings because there’d be no electricity left for the floodlights after our energy supplies would had suffered a shock akin to the meltdown of a nuclear power plant.
The City of London would become a ghost town, our manufacturing industries would be sanctioned more punitively than even communist North Korea […]
[…] we would instantly become some sort of hermit kingdom, a North Atlantic North Korea only without that country’s fund of international good […]