Gisela Stuart has given an interview to The New Statesman (HERE) where she accuses journalists of exaggerating reports of racist crimes following the brexit vote - even though the 45% increase is I believe, a police statistic and not from the press.
In the interview she is asked how can she justify pushing for a full-fat Brexit, when the people who Labour is supposed to represent would be hit the hardest? Communities struggling financially, and migrants who have been victims of racism?
“You have to have a conversation and say, in the long-run, this was the right thing to do,” says Stuart of the former. “Restoring democratic accountability in a way, which makes a society resilient. It gives it that base on which you then become economically successful.”
So it is an acceptance of short-term sacrifice then? “Yeah, I think so. Yeah,” she concedes.
I cannot remember anyone on the leave side saying there would be any short-term sacrifice, in fact Digby Jones (see right) was among the majority of leavers when he said "there won't be any economic pain". Stuart herself was on stage with BoJo when he told us we would prosper like never before. What happens when voters realise they have been duped?
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