How will the Brexiteers react if they lose? Expect bitterness and frustration | Paul Mason

The right's attitude to migration could get even nastier, but a Remain vote will offer Labour a fresh chance to reconnect with 'red Ukip'

Something is happening in the Brexit debate that the polls and the demographic breakdowns are not catching. We know that rightwing Tory grandees are using the campaign as a proxy leadership contest against Cameron. What we don't know is how the plebeian end of the Leave campaign will react if they lose. My instinct says: badly.

The incessant focus of the media on the Brexit debate has made the issue, for some Brexiteers, a visceral, life-defining cause. This is particularly true among younger pro-Brexit people, for whom - as in Scotland - this is the first political thing they've ever done.

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