Salon: Embattled Whiteness Gave Us Brexit.

[Number23]

28. This was no victory for the left and anyone that espouses that shows their utter and complete

ignorance and lack of even elementary understanding of politics, domestic and foreign.

No "leftist" could celebrate the racist dog-whistling done by the Leave campaign. First we had Boris Johnson alluding that Obama's "Kenyan roots" are what lead to him being opposed to the UK leaving the EU. Then we had the UKIP not even pretending to be subtle with its racist depictions of floods of unwashed, brown immigrants flooding the UK. It's already been noted how similar those ads were to Nazi propaganda.

This was racism, nationalism and closed-mindedness wrapped up in a bow of craven political cynism. The reaction from even members of the Leave campaign with their "dear God, what have we done?" looks on their faces and the number of people that have already declared they regret their Leave votes speaks to how dishonest, unethical and decidedly UNPROGRESSIVE all of this has been.