Bomb scare insults voters’ intelligence

ACCORDING to David Cameron, we are sitting on top of an unexploded bomb. This was the menacing image at the heart of the latest desperate scare story the Prime Minister has dreamed up as he struggles to revive his faltering campaign to keep Britain inside the EU. Deploying ludicrous hyperbole, Mr Cameron outlined the devastation which he claims will ensue if voters spurn his doom-laden warnings and vote Leave.

The pound would fall, prices rise and mortgage rates soar as house values plunged. And for good measure, he warned that businesses would go bust and jobs disappear.

This, he said, would be like putting ‘ a bomb under our economy’, and ‘the worst thing is we’d have lit the fuse ourselves’.

If all this was true, surely it would have been utterly reckless to have called this referendum in the first place.

A little later, he had the mind-blowing gall to declare, ‘I genuinely don’t believe there’s any scaremongering on my side.’

Really, Mr Prime Minister? If these remarks don’t amount to scaremongering, heaven help us when Project Fear really gets under way.

This country is still waiting to hear a positive and intellectually coherent case for remaining in the EU. It is bad enough to refuse to engage in face-to-face debate with your principal Conservative opponents on TV, and instead choose to appear yesterday with a bunch of superannuated Lefties. What makes matters worse is that day after day, the Prime Minister demeans his office by peddling hysteria, inviting the accusation that he’s talking the country down.

Is there the remotest chance that in the last 16 days of the campaign, the leaders of the Remain side might stop insulting voters’ intelligence and simply stick to the facts?