Millionaire comic and achingly right-on Labour moderate Robert Webb has deleted this late-night tweet calling Leave voters “thick people”:
Before clarifying that actually he was only calling half the Wembley audience “stupid“:
I don't call them stupid. I called half the Wembley audience stupid for applauding Johnson's absurd Independence Day peroration…
— Robert Webb (@arobertwebb) June 21, 2016
Meanwhile Ben Goldacre, the celebrity scientist and Guardian columnist, has written:
“There will be lots and lots of immigration: bad luck if you don’t like that… This is not the fault of the EU… Deal with it. Immigration will never stop… Just vote remain. It’s boring, there’s nothing awesome about it, but sometimes you have to take a break from useful productive work to stop idiots breaking things.”
An ingenious intervention. That’ll be a few more votes for Leave…