MysteryTripAgain & all other hardcore leavers:
Exactly my point. I know that you leavers despise me. You despise me because I am "other," because I have an accent, because my hair is deep black and my skin is dark, you despise me because, in spite of having no networks and no connections, just out my sheet talent I have a 'nice' career in the arts, and a large house in the nice part of town.
You despise me because, in spite of the not being my native language, I earn my keep writing, and gatekeeping other people's language.
You despise me because I get to write history and you drink tepid lager in your pretend pub. Some of you even despise me for having married a British man. Why did he have to marry 'foreign'?
Your hate and your envy started this process.
Mine is the righteous anger of the discriminated and oppressed. I did not even get to vote in the EU referendum. I am angry and disenfranchised.
And, just like we watch films about the 1930s and we shake our heads, "how people could do this to other people - we wonder, we will do the same in fifty year's time. How could you do this to three million EU people in this country, and 1.5 million Brits in the EU, their freedom eroded and their rights questioned. Their lives caught in a spiral of anxiety, their lives changed forever. You did this.
And maybe you did not mean it, but actions have consequences and you have taken out of the box this monster of racism and fear - which stems from your inability to look at the real causes of trouble in this country and Europe - why do you think people like Mogg and Farage and Tommy Robinson are your your side? They truly do not care about 'the people' and the working class, their desire to leave the EU is just a means to an end to make the UK an unregulated desert, a place without taxes and without state, where only the fittest and the aristocratic survive , where universities are eroded because they normally create egalitarian thought, a kind of new middle age, with people bamboozled by technology and no critical thought. This is what you are buying into. A delusion of Empire2.0 in which you will be no other than cannon fodder. But keep drinking tepid lager in your pretend pub.
And I thank my good star that I have some form of power and influence in my writing, that now every conference I organise, every article I write, every editorial, every book I publish, hammers the historical message home, the historical truth, evicence-based history of collaboration and growth and rips the veil out of the Brexit dream and exposes to all to see for the ruthless, cruel, inhumane monster that it is.
You have been drinking poison and you are using it to kill us.
I will never forget and will never forgive.