Never hear of Brexit again? Oh yes we will

Only a week to go and we’ll never need to hear the word ‘Brexit’ again. Actually, that’s highly unlikely. If we vote to leave the EU, the painfully slow process of separating ourselves from our European neighbours will no doubt become known as Brexit.

And if we vote against Brexit, those in favour of Brexit will be wagging their fingers every time the EU does something wrong and telling voters that they should have chosen Brexit instead.

So, either way, the word Brexit is here to stay for a while yet, so better get used to it. Brexit.

Interminable as it has been, I will rather miss the referendum campaign when it finally ends. It’s been fun seeing which side can conjure up the most apocalyptic vision of our future if we make the wrong choice. Leave or remain, it all seems pretty bleak. Like many, I’m finding it difficult to choose which dystopian vision to go with. It appears to have come down to a straight choice between World War Three (leave) and subjugation by a sword-wielding Turkish army (remain).

The latter is certainly a more specific threat and one we could perhaps better prepare for, although the world war option would probably be over quicker. Decisions, decisions.

As the propaganda war rages, I’m surprised the two campaign groups haven’t thought to dig out footage from films like Threads and The Day After, which scared the living daylights out of everyone in the early 1980s by imagining a world after nuclear war.

Whether a post-brexit or post-remain world will resemble a post-apocalypse Sheffield remains to be seen, but when we’re all desperately trying to grow plants in the dusty wreckage of our civilisation, you can be sure Boris Johnson or David Cameron will be there to say they told us so.

‘As the propaganda war rages, I’m surprised the two campaign groups haven’t thought to dig out footage from films like Threads and The Day After’