A SCAREMONGERING too far.

I would like to refer to UKIP chairman Sue Perkins accusing some in the EU remain campaign of “scaremongering”

on these pages on 11 March 2016. This was regarding the “talk” of the refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk being closed by the French government if we leave the EU, and then what she described as “migrants” coming to the UK and being “lost in the interior”.

I agree with her in some ways, being that the refugees shouldn’t have been used as a political football in the first place, but one couldn’t help wonder was she talking about human beings here? There was no pity about the squalid conditions of those people at the camps, there was no mention about the fact that many are there after fleeing war and terror in North Africa and the Middle East.

They can be “returned to France” she said, because somehow it’s acceptable for the French to have the refugees, but not the UK.

Anyway I digress somewhat, Sue Perkins accused others of “scaremongering”

but then on March 25 she made the claim that if we don’t leave the EU we’ll be “up to our necks as the EU dissolves before our very eyes in a year or two” How can anyone accuse others of “scaremongering” and then make claims like that?

The claims seem to be made on the basis that some countries now want a referendum too, but pollsters will always tell you that if you ask people if they want a referendum on something, they will almost always say yes.

However finally, not only am I highlighting what could be hypocrisy here, but I am also missing a trick. Those that are first to always cry “scaremongering” like many in the leave campaign are usually just telling their opponents to shut up.

Paul Goddard, St Ann’s Close, Andover