{"id":74927,"date":"2019-01-08T14:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/08\/vote-leave-relied-on-racism-brexit-the-uncivil-war-disguised-that-ugly-truth-martin-shaw\/"},"modified":"2019-01-08T14:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:34:55","slug":"vote-leave-relied-on-racism-brexit-the-uncivil-war-disguised-that-ugly-truth-martin-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=74927","title":{"rendered":"Vote Leave relied on racism. Brexit: The Uncivil War disguised that ugly truth | Martin Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Channel 4 drama let Dominic Cummings blame others for a campaign that brought bigotry to the centre of British politicsAt the beginning of Channel 4\u2019s drama Brexit: The Uncivil War, the ex-Tory Ukip MP Douglas Carswell tells Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings, newly appointed to run Vote Leave, that they will offer a \u201crespectable alternative\u201d to the \u201crightwing thugs\u201d Nigel Farage and Arron Banks. Cummings, the \u201cstrategist\u201d (and anti-hero of this semi-biopic), soon returns to the theme: the Conservative-led and soon to be officially recognised campaign \u201cneeds to be respectable\u201d, appealing beyond Ukip\u2019s base if it is to win 50% plus one and the referendum. Elliott drums the point home: \u201cWe need to get them [Farage and Banks\u2019 Leave.EU] to do the heavy lifting on the migration stuff \u2013 then we keep our hands clean.\u201d Related: I was part of the remain campaign. There are lessons in Brexit: The Uncivil War | Will Straw Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jan\/08\/vote-leave-racism-brexit-uncivil-war-channel-4\" target=\"_blank\">Vote Leave relied on racism. Brexit: The Uncivil War disguised that ugly truth | Martin Shaw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Channel 4 drama let Dominic Cummings blame others for a campaign that brought bigotry to the centre of British politicsAt the beginning of Channel 4\u2019s drama Brexit: The Uncivil War, the ex-Tory Ukip MP Douglas Carswell tells Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings, newly appointed to run Vote Leave, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}