Brexit SHOCK: Leave campaigner reveals 'INTOLERABLE' racist abuse from Remainers
A BREXIT supporter has claimed that she has suffered “intolerable” racist abuse from Remain campaigners after she came out in support of leaving the European Union.
Leave campaigner on ‘intolerable’ racist abuse from Remainers
Leave supporter and Telegraph Brexit Editor Dia Chakravarty alleged to Sky News that she had suffered racist abuse for the first time in the eighteen years she has lived in the UK after came out in support for leaving the European Union.
Ms Chakravarty said: “We constantly get told that the Brexiteers are racist etcetera.
“Eighteen years in this country, I’m a first generation immigrant, I have no family in this country, I’m on my own.
“For eighteen years, the first time I started getting racist abuse was from Remainers right after I came out for Brexit.
“And it is intolerable.
“So when they say that Brexiteers are all racist and Remainers are all internationalist, their internationalism seems to be limited to Europe.
“There is a world outside Europe, and that’s what a lot of us Brexiteers like to talk about.”
The political activist told of her alleged abuse on Sky News while she appeared alongside fellow journalist Kevin Schofield to review the top newspaper headlines of the day.
Ms Chakravarty and Mr Schofield reviewed an article by Times journalist Rachel Sylvester titled “The Tories have stopped caring about voters”.
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Ms Chakravarty criticised how Brexiteers were portrayed in the article through a quotation from Lord Cooper, a strategist for David Cameron.
Lord Cooper is quoted as saying: “Brexit is a proxy for one’s view of the modern world: are you nationalist or internationalist, positive about immigration, diversity and multiculturalism or do you feel those things are a threat?”
Ms Chakravarty disputed this view, saying: “It shows how little they’ve learnt about people that they don’t like. It comes through so clearly here.
“We are told constantly it is a divide between people who are internationalist Remainers and Nationalists who are the Brexiteers.”