It has been a while since I said anything particularly political or blogged about Brexit here, but I think the best thing I can do today is direct everyone to this very astute vlog by Supertanski. In it, I think she sums up the current, rather perverse state of affairs really well: how Reform are capitalising on and manipulating people’s fears, ignorance and naivites. Farage and co. are essentially conning people, generating a form of warped, fake patriotism; scapegoating immigrants in order to ensure they go unchecked. It’s something such charlatans have always done. It is really quite perverse when you look at it, but the degree to which it is going unnoticed seems to be growing more and more extreme. I’m just glad some of us can still point it out.