Quote DrFeelgood="DrFeelgood"I'm sick of the vitriol - the supposed "left wing" shouting down everyone who isn't voting Remain'"
FWIW, both sides are feeling the same way. I know many people who have an opinion but are determined to keep it to themselves because they expected to get shouted down. I'm not particularly wary of sharing my opinion but I have been on this. And it's a different one to yours. I have flat out refused to talk about it at work with anyone.
It says a lot about the nature of this campaign.
It's been interesting following the primaries campaign in the US this year for similar reasons. Measuring the support for Clinton is essentially impossible because even her most ardent supporters aren't saying they support her. Whether it's a divisive issue or not she's the most divisive figure in American politics and has been for 20+ years. Trump and the Bernie Bros are in your face. Clinton supporters are in closed FB groups, hiding their numbers. Add a few percent to every poll you see.
My favourite moment in the referendum happened last night. A pro-remain friend of mine posted a link on FB. It was about a riot in Calais. It was a link from the Daily Mail. FB was suggesting links from the Telegraph, the BBC, Guardian, NY Times and a few others. It had just been on the evening news on the radio.
He had three different people jump on it demanding to know if this was true why it hadn't been in the news, and insisting that he was a scaremongering fool.
This is the level we're at. Everyone's a fscking idiot. Stay or leave the decision is invalid because it was made by idiots dancing to the tune of manipulative w@nkers for whom the argument is not about what the argument is all about. And either way it'll be within the margin of error. Everyone with a dog in the fight is going to feel like they've lost out to the tyranny of a marginal majority. And we'll resent each other for decades for what in the final analysis is a Tory civil war.
It's a sound basis from which to stride confidently into the future, all arguments put definitively behind us.