I’m beginning to hate this referendum; it should never have been called. It has become so corrosive and damaging to our society, bringing out the worst in people, that it’s hard to see us recovering from it for a long while, whatever the outcome. Yesterday, an MP was murdered: while it’s too early to talk about motive, there are reports that the attacker was shouting ”Britain First”. The growing consensus seems to be that the attack was referendum related. If that is true, then you have to wonder, what have we become? What has this thing turned us into? A UKIP van is going around with a poster ‘accidentally’ mimicking nazi propaganda. I used to think it was just me being hot-headed and immature, but the whole nation seems to descended into something approaching savagery. Sibling is turning against sibling, friend against friend, parent against son, in a mutual hatred which goes far beyond normal, civilised political discourse. And all for a referendum which, at the end of the day, we did not need, and was only thrown because CaMoron wanted to shut his euroskeptic backbenchers up. What a horrible, fucked-up state of affairs. All this worrying, all this rage and hate, for such a petty thing.