This weird referendum campaign has produced some strange bedfellows. Alongside oddly mute supporters of a federal United States of Europe, or advocates of closer integration, stand plenty of pragmatists and reluctant Remainers. Among them are some of my friends, patriotic people who have simply concluded that the economic risks of Brexit are too great to countenance voting to leave.
They are not idiots, or traitors, and possibly the only thing that could change my mind this close to the vote as a moderate for Leave is if I thought Brexit would empower the nativists on the far out wing of UKIP, those who take such a dim view of their fellow citizens and are so quick to condemn rather than persuade opponents. But that is not what a Brexit vote would unleash. They are one faction in a party with one MP.
