On the 23rd June it will have been one year since the UK voted the leave the European Union.

The entire campaign was in many ways an embarrassment to the democratic process and neither the leave nor the remain side covered themselves in glory.

Looking back with the benefit of twelve months of hindsight it is all too easy to remember the misinformation, the scaremongering and inconsistencies from both sides.

It would be nice to think that we could take something from this and that the state of British politics could improve as a result but a tweet from the Leave campaign yesterday demonstrates that this is wishful thinking:

#BastilleDay🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/iL8O2AAlYS

— LEAVE.EU 🇬🇧 (@LeaveEUOfficial) July 14, 2017

The worst aspect of the leave campaign was the latent racism alongside the general anti-Muslim rhetoric in the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis but we see here that even a year later this is still dominating the Brexiteers’ narrative.

It is true that immigration is an important issue to a lot of the electorate but there is a big difference between engaging in an honest discussion about the economic and cultural impact of immigration and insensitive exaggerations that bring the discussion right down to the basest level.

A year has passed but precious little has changed.