This is a grotesque act of national self harm.
It will make us all poorer, life harder, society less vibrant. It'll make our own neighbours feel unwelcome. And all to satisfy the coldest and meanest in our country.
This, above all, is why Brexit has to be resisted. It is the vanguard of British reactionary politics. The replacement of free movement with a Tory immigration policy is the worst defeat for liberalism in a generation.
And you can forget all that tepid unconvincing bullshit, from David Davis on one side and the useful Lexit idiots on the other, about this being done to control, not reduce, immigration. It or an anti-immigrant policy. That is all it fucking is.
It's barely even a Brexit policy at this stage. It's just an anti-immigrant policy with a trade hara-kiri chaser.
This is what the Brexit fight is really about, once you strip out all the nonsense. They want to make this a meaner, less diverse country.
And it's why the resistance to them never died out and looks capable of stopping it. Because we know what the stakes are.
So when they say 'aren't you worried about the rise of the populist right if you have another referendum', I think: no, we've lived under the populist right since June 2016.
What worries me is a significant deterioration in this country's living standards amid churned-out anti-immigrant rhetoric.
And that's why we don't give these fuckers an inch.
