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An open letter to Allison Pearson: Don’t use terror attacks to justify Brexit

By Chris Key | Wed 23rd March 2016 - 1:59 pm

I read the following tweet by Allison Pearson yesterday in response to the terrorist attack in Brussels.

Brussels, de facto capital of the EU, is also the jihadist capital of Europe. And the Remainers dare to say we’re safer in the EU! #Brexit

— Allison Pearson (@allisonpearson) March 22, 2016

Here is my letter to her in response.

Dear Allison,

We all agree today’s events were terrible. However we have a choice as to how to react.

Even Nigel Farage managed to be restrained within the first hour of the attacks today. Today you have won the “who can make political capital out of a terror attack the quickest award”.

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