We need to hear all of the facts

THE debate over the EU and Brexit is becoming shrill and silly. Any time anybody on either side suggests a likely effect of staying or going the cry goes up that it is “scaremongering”. Rot.

It is a contribution to the debate. Government has a duty to warn us about the likely consequences of leaving and it is no more scaremongering to point out those consequences than it was for David Cameron to tell the Scottish Nationalists that they wouldn’t have a currency in an independent Scotland and that businesses would leave. They cried foul as well.

Equally it is quite in order for the “out” campaigners to warn of the consequences of staying and, if they believe them to be dire, they too have a duty to say so.

Merely because we do not always like what we hear does not mean that we should not hear it.