Brexit, why is it so awful?

The campaign has resumed again. A friend of mine, a German journalist (like me), who lives half in Scotland and half in Germany, recently wrote about the names he is given by Brexiteeres when  speaking in favour of Remain. It is heartbreaking to see how poisonous this conflict about something that's supposed to be wholeheartedly democratic has develloped. Idiot, fool, and the whole range of  verbal nastinesses, the Brexit campaign may imagine, is listed. He congratulated himself, however, for not yet having been called a Nazi. What an achievement!

German X-mas decoration. 

I quote some recent headlines in British papers: Jo Cox gave her life for democracy. And: There's something un-British about our response to Orlando and Jo Cox. And: Nigel Farage, one of the most disturbing agitators of this campaign, said: I am a victim of political hatred. Poor Farage, you disserve better! Maybe a pic of Anders Breivik (Norwegian and mass murderer) showing his inner Nazi? Sorry, one sees where this campaign leads to. Farage was seen on a poster with numerous migrants he wishes to go back.  Even his co-Brexiteer Michael Gove said that this poster made him shudder. Did I discover some irruption of fair play?

Breivik 

An other significant quote as it seems: we are adopting the nastiness of American politics in our own system, says The Independent, meaning a certain Donald Trump. I summarize: un-British nastiness and political hatred against migrants? I must have misunderstood something. So, why does everything related to truth, honesty, peace, humanity, hospitality etc. at present gets discredited left and right? As a German living in Yorkshire I only hope that I'll happily wake up from a dream which looks very much like a nightmare. And Angela Merkel, who has already distroyed Greece and Turkey, does not achieve her plans to chase Great Britain out of Paradise.

German X-mas decoration