Name – Peter Good

Role – Unstereotypical Leave voter

Reason for interview – As I have eluded to many times both in this blog and in the documentary itself, I really wanted to break down the stereotypes of the Leave campaign. I wanted to demonstrate that people from all walks of life campaigned and voted to support the Leave campaign. Although yes more young people or “millennials” as the media seem to have started using as a way to categorise this section of society voted to Leave, it wasn’t everyone. Having studied Arabic Studies at University, living abroad in many countries such as Syria and being multilingual, Peter excellently showed the diversity of Leave supporters.

He helped me to demonstrate that we aren’t all older members of the society who’re vehemently opposed to the diversification of 21st century Britain. He also spoke in his interview about the massive range of reasons people chose to support the Leave campaign and told me his own reasons. None of his reasons had been extensively examined by some sections of the media – having simply ignored these in favour of the immigration issue.

Key Quote –

“There has been this definite accusation that everyone who voted to Leave hates foreigners. That in my case couldn’t be further from the truth! Saying we must be xenophobic and we must be anti-immigration just demonstrates a very narrow minded view on people in the world.”