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Classic Planet Fear tactics

ANOTHER day, another scare story from the Ministry of Fear to persuade us that voting to leave the European Union means welcoming war, pestilence and penury.

David Cameron knows that older people are most opposed to EU membership and more likely to actually vote, so he suggests that leaving “would put pensions at risk.”

He claims too that uncertainty over visa and residency permit issues for 100,000 skilled EU workers in Britain’s care sector would have an “unpredictable effect on frontline services.”

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