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A Game of Two Halves. Should We Stay or Should We Go?

It's been a shit campaign hasn't it? It was never going to be thrills and spills but I never thought it would be as turgid as it turned out to be.  Then again I didn't think it was going to be almost exclusively a Tory tag team match between Cameron/Osborne and Farage/Johnson/Gove with most of the Tory press acting as cheerleaders.  It felt a bit like a party I hadn't been invited to, thank goodness and also thank goodness it will be over tomorrow night.   I'm going down to get my vote in early tomorrow morning before work.  I seriously thought about abstaining but I'm in folks.  Why?  At the start of the campaign I just had a hunch that it was in the best interests of the British people and I've heard nothing to change my mind.  If anything my view has hardened. Not because I've been inspired by the remain campaign camp but more because of the leave campaign.  From their pronouncements that leaving the EU will mean more money being availa...