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RIVAL SIDES ARE throwing their efforts into the final day of campaigning ahead of tomorrow’s vote on Britain’s EU membership.
Prime Minister David Cameron is conducting a spate of last-minute interviews to get his pro-EU message to voters before polls open at 7am tomorrow.
“Nobody knows what is going to happen,” he told the Financial Times. “I believe it will one way or another be decisive. Britain will not want to go through this again.”
The Remain camp has the slimmest possible lead – 51% versus 49% support for the Leave side, according to an average of polls compiled by What UK Thinks.
In a final push to win over the undecided voters who could tip the referendum, campaigners will speak at rival Leave and Remain rallies taking place within hours of each other in London.
Representatives from both sides clashed during a BBC debate last night. A final television debate will be broadcast on Channel 4 tonight, featuring anti-EU UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage and former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond for Remain.
The prospect of Britain becoming the first state to defect from the EU in the bloc’s 60-year history has raised fears of a domino-effect collapse of the European project.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has urged Britain against leaving the EU. He described it as “an act of self-harm” that would endanger everything Europeans had worked together to achieve.
Two newspapers used their front pages today for last-minute endorsements of opposite sides of the campaign.
“Lies. Greedy elites. Or a great future outside a broken, dying Europe,” the Daily Mail wrote. “If you believe in Britain vote Leave.”
But the Daily Mirror urged readers to back EU membership “for your jobs … for your children … for Britain’s future”.
The campaign has been fought over the two key issues of the economy and immigration, with both sides accusing the other of “scaremongering”.
The Mirror described it as “the most divisive, vile and unpleasant political campaign in living memory”.
Jo Cox
Around the world, events will be held to mark what would have been the 42nd birthday of MP Jo Cox, who was murdered last week on a street in her electoral district in northern England.
Thomas Mair is due to appear in court for a preliminary hearing after the killing. In his first court appearance he gave his name as “Death to traitors, freedom for Britain”.
Cox’s widower Brendan said his wife, a noted pro-EU campaigner who advocated for refugee rights, had been killed because of her political views.
“She worried about the tone of the [referendum] debate … The tone of whipping up fears and whipping up hatred potentially,” he told the BBC.
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Sympathy to the poor woman, but serious sympathy to the poor truck driver, this is becoming all to frequent in this country, he was only doing his days work, minding his own business.
That poor woman. Her whole life turned upside down on a morning where we all should be just enjoying the sunshine and then this happens. Devastated for her.
This is utterly horrible. Poor young mum. Poor wee kid. Words fail me
So tragic. How is that mother ever going to get over this. Rip little man. Watch over your mam.
Looks like it was deliberate. I could be wrong but it looks like attempted murder of the woman and murder/ suicide of the child and man. I know that road well and if he was from Lattin he would know it well too and would know not to overtake. Rip to both and my utmost sympathy to the mother of the little boy.
He’s not eastern European, his parents are Italian, but he was born and raised here,
Don’t like the look where this story is going
It’s easy to condemn but the poor man must have been in a very distressed state of mind to do something like that.
RIP.
Fcuk him. He just destroyed a mothers life and murdered her son. If he lives we would all be saying he should be locked up. But now that he died we feel sorry for him. And don’t get me started on the funeral service for this fella where the priests says “it’s a dark day”.. This man just murdered his son and attempted to murder his partner. S(umbag
Ricky.. Most murdering b@stards are in a distressed state of mind
When a mother murders her children society reaches out the hand of compassion and understanding.
Why is it not the same for fathers?
Ricky. Murdering mothers are worse than mothering dads
Just think about what happened here for a moment………and reflect on how this situation spiralled out of control to this point. The human tragedy involved.
Can we truly say we understand it and as such are in a position to make a judgement call one way or the other?
Sinead I hope you are never in a situation where your mind is so badly messed up by depression that you are not thinking rationally. Obviously this man was out of his mind doing this and it breaks my heart that a little boy has died and his mother had to go through such an assault, but nobody knows his circumstances and shouldn’t be quick to judge that he was ” evil” . I’m not saying I agree with what he did because I don’t , but with serious mental health problems a while back myself I know that your mind does not think normally . I certainly hope this is the case with him because I’d hate to think this WAS an act of pure evil
Oh no. That poor little boy. Whether the crash was an accident or deliberate, no child deserves that.
So sad, too much detail re the crash. Horrible set of circumstances
It’s just so sad to be hearing about theses suicides , people should always realised that life is 2 step backwards and 1 step forward , this carry on could be avoided… RIP to the little lad … So sad !
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