The prevalent notion is that all those people who wish for us to leave the European Union are thick as mince ‘Little Englanders’ (the wrong insult, incidentally), motivated by racism, nostalgia and xenophobic spite. The left-wing argument to get the hell out has been scarcely touched upon, and yet it is – for me, at least, and I suspect quite a few voters – just as compelling as the stuff about immigration and democracy. So huge credit to Suzanne Moore for her piece in Wednesday’s Guardian. It’s, as ever, an excellent bit of writing and gets straight to the point.

One caveat, though. Moore recognises the fundamental anti-democratic mindset of the EU, and the bullying unleashed upon Syriza in Greece. She gets the establishment versus the plebs argument, too. Quite right. But the EU’s stifling of democracy is surely just as pernicious in its treatment of socially conservative populist parties – in Poland, Hungary, Austria – as it is when dealing with Syriza, and she doesn’t mention that at all. This is either because Suzanne thinks it’s ok to stifle democracy when it applies to parties with which she disagrees, or that she thought mentioning this totalitarianism towards the populist Right would not play well with her bien-pensant audience. I hope it’s the latter.