Why Is There Fear In Great Britain Persuasive Essay

Furthermore, both sides have been using a common theme to persuade voters of their political motive: fear. Nigel Farage, the leader of the pro-Brexit party UKIP, caused a heated discussion when he warned that the men, rumoured refugees, who carried out sexual assaults on hundreds of women in Cologne could gain the right to travel to Britain in the near future. He told an audience in Westminster “I do not want those young men who were outside Cologne train station to have one of these (EU passports) in a few short years and to be able to come to our country,”. The Remain campaign also used fear as a weapon of persuasion. David Cameron said in an interview on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 “We will be safer, we will be stronger, we will be better off inside the EU.” and later on adds that leaving the European Union is like taking a “leap into the dark”. This emotive language, and the triple pattern of these statements, effectively implies that leaving would impose a great risk for the United Kingdom and consequently, he fuels further fears associated with Britain ending its’ membership.
The “politics of fear” according to Ruth Wodak, a professor of linguistics at Lancaster University, are “very strong in persuading audiences who don’t have much information to vote with their gut feeling, which is where rational discussions don’t find a