Causing division

I have been saddened by the division this referendum has caused in our country. I don’t think of the UK or our people as foreign.

Over more years than I can remember I was lucky enough to travel the length of the country, on family holidays near Morpeth, Morecambe Bay and then later living in Hampshire for a time.

It never ceased to amaze me how welcoming people were when they heard my Glaswegian accent. Many would talk to me about their own visits and happy memories of Glasgow and Scotland, and the welcome they received here.

I also think about the achievements we’ve had together: creating the NHS, the BBC and fighting fascism when it was just us on our own. If we can do that together surely we can achieve even more in the future?

It breaks my heart to think we might decide to turn our back on our shared friendships, history, and memories as if they aren’t worth anything.

I have more in common with the people of Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle than I, or they, ever will with any of the politicians causing the division.

We should be reaching out and working together to solve our problems, instead of putting up barriers between friends and family.

They don’t want us to go and I will be voting to stay together on 18 September. Name and address supplied.